双柄震击器 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	双柄震击器
品名（英）	Two-handled jar
入馆年号	1974年，1974.105.3
策展部门	古代近东艺术（Ancient Near Eastern Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 700 - 公元前 600
创作地区
分类
尺寸	4.61 x 5.47 x 4.45 英寸 (11.71 x 13.89 x 11.3 厘米)
介绍（中）	这个双锥形罐子有一个扁平的底座，一个喇叭形边缘和两个环形手柄连接到肩部和边缘。它由使用陶轮的红粘土制成。它是在Tepe Nush-i Jan挖掘的，这是一个铁器时代的山顶遗址，位于伊朗西部哈马丹约60公里处。Nush-i Jan在公元前7世纪和6世纪被占领，其居住者通常被认为是米底人，一个从亚述，阿契美尼德和圣经资料中知道的伊朗人。尽管文本资料将他们描绘成一个强大的帝国，但米底人的考古证据尚未支持这种印象。相反，他们似乎生活在伊朗西部和中部分散的防御工事中，没有任何明确的首都。Nush-i Jan是这些遗址中最著名的之一，拥有两座寺庙，一个圆柱形大厅和一个堡垒。这个罐子是在柱状大厅里被发现的，那里被确定为"擅自占地者"。考古学家使用"蹲守"一词来指代在废弃后不久重新占领遗址或结构。在这种情况下，"擅自占地者"似乎是米底人，将其视为空间的重新配置而不是蹲下可能更有用。一些政治变化可能导致不再需要当地统治者容纳观众的圆柱大厅。
介绍（英）	This biconical jar has a flat base, a flaring rim and two loop handles connected to the shoulder and rim. It is made of a red clay using a potter’s wheel. It was excavated at Tepe Nush-i Jan, an Iron Age hilltop site about 60 km sound of Hamadan in western Iran. Nush-i Jan was occupied in the 7th and 6th centuries B.C., and its occupants are generally thought to be the Medes, an Iranian people known from Assyrian, Achaemenid and Biblical sources. Though the textual sources portray them as a powerful empire, archaeological evidence for the Medes has yet to sustain this impression. Rather, they seem to have lived in scattered fortified sites in western and central Iran, without any clear capital. Nush-i Jan, one of the best known of these sites, features two temples, a columned hall, and a fort. The jar was found in the columned hall in what has been identified as a ‘squatter’s level.’ Archaeologists use the term ‘squatting’ to refer to the re-occupation of a site or structure shortly after its abandonment. In this case the ‘squatters’ appear to be Medes, and it perhaps more useful to think of this as a reconfiguration of space rather than squatting. Some political change may have resulted in the columned hall, where the local ruler would have held audiences, no longer being necessary.