有角动物装饰的杯子 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	有角动物装饰的杯子
品名（英）	Cup decorated with horned animals
入馆年号	1955年，55.60.1
策展部门	古代近东艺术（Ancient Near Eastern Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 4000 - 公元前 3600
创作地区
分类
尺寸	高: 4.63 英寸 (11.76 厘米); Diameter of rim: 3.50 英寸 (8.89 厘米)
介绍（中）	该烧杯具有狭窄而平坦的底部，直的侧面和外翻的边缘。它由浅黄色粘土制成，带有棕色装饰。这些装饰品的特点是有角的动物，身体程式化，脖子长，尾巴卷曲，以及延伸到边缘的起伏角。内部的轮子线表明它是在陶轮上制作的。这个烧杯的形状和装饰与在伊朗中部卡尚附近的Tepe Sialk挖掘的船只非常相似。锡亚尔克遗址分布在两个土丘上。从公元前6000年到公元前4000年，北部土丘有人居住，南部土丘从公元前4000年到公元前2500年发现了与此类似的陶器，当时该遗址被遗弃了近一千年。这个烧杯上的动物，虽然看起来是某种山羊，但不能与任何特定的物种识别。毫无疑问，这是故意的。这个烧杯的制作者没有说明它看起来的自然世界，而是以一种抽象的方式描绘了这个生物，也许是为了强调它在当地信仰中的作用的某些方面——这些信仰在今天对我们来说已经丢失了。
介绍（英）	This beaker has a narrow, flat base, straight sides, and an everted rim. It is made of buff clay, with painted brown decorations. These decorations feature a horned animal with a stylized body, a long neck, a curled tail, and undulating horns that extend to the rim. Wheel lines on the interior indicate that it was made on a potter’s wheel. The shape and decoration of this beaker closely resemble that of vessels excavated at Tepe Sialk, near Kashan in central Iran. The site of Sialk is spread over two mounds. The northern mound was inhabited from ca. 6000 to 4000 B.C., and the southern mound, where similar pottery to this was found, from ca. 4000 B.C. until 2500 B.C., when the site abandoned for nearly a millennium. The animal on this beaker, though seemingly some sort of caprid, cannot be identified with any specific species. No doubt this is intentional. Rather than illustrating the natural world as it appeared, the maker of this beaker depicts this creature in an abstract manner, perhaps to emphasize some aspect of its role in local beliefs – beliefs which are lost to us in the present day.