手镯 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	手镯
品名（英）	Bracelet
入馆年号	1978年，1978.93.18
策展部门	古代近东艺术（Ancient Near Eastern Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 285 - 公元前 180
创作地区
分类
尺寸	2 11/16 英寸 (6.8 厘米)
介绍（中）	这个银手镯的末端装饰着风格化的动物头，可能是蛇。头部用凸起表示，眼睛用切割的圆圈表示。动物的鼻子也被切开了。每个头部后面都有一排平行的切割线。这只手镯是在伊朗西南部的帕萨加代发掘的，位于设拉子东北约90公里处。帕萨加代是公元前546年居鲁士大帝建立的阿契美尼德波斯帝国的第一个首都。手镯是在Tall-i Takht发现的，这是一个巨大的人工平台，可能是作为王宫的遗址建造的，但在520年左右大流士在波斯波利斯建立新首都后，它被改建为一个设防的大院。然而，从Takht发现的硬币和其他发现，包括这个手镯，表明它一直被占领到公元前二世纪，也就是阿契美尼德帝国灭亡很久之后手镯是在Takht南角的一个房间里发现的。它与第二个类似的手镯和一堆银币一起被发现，这些银币可以追溯到塞琉古一世统治早期（公元前323-281年）。手镯与硬币一起被发现表明它被用作货币而不是珠宝，尽管这些用途并不相互排斥。该窖藏可能是由于某种危机而被隐藏起来的，事实上，该遗址似乎在公元前2世纪初的某个时候被烧毁了。
介绍（英）	The terminals of this silver bracelet are decorated with stylized animal heads, possibly meant to be snakes. The heads are indicated with bulges, and the eyes by incised circles. The animals’ snouts are also incised. A row of parallel incised lines is behind each head. This bracelet was excavated at Pasargadae in southwestern Iran, about 90 km northeast of Shiraz. Pasargadae was the first capital of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, founded by Cyrus the Great c. 546 B.C. The bracelet was found at the Tall-i Takht, a massive artificial platform presumably built as the site of a royal palace but converted into a fortified compound after Darius established a new capital at Persepolis around 520. However, the coin hoards and other finds from the Takht, including this bracelet, show that it continued to be occupied down into the second century B.C., long after the fall of the Achaemenid Empire. The bracelet was found in a room in the southern corner of the Takht. It was discovered along with a second, similar bracelet and a hoard of silver coins dating to early in the reign of Seleucus I (323-281 B.C.). That the bracelet was found with coins suggests that it was being used as money rather than jewelry, though these uses are not mutually exclusive. The hoard was probably hidden due to some crisis, and indeed the site appears to have been burned sometime in the early 2nd century B.C.