有孔小珠 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	有孔小珠
品名（英）	Bead
入馆年号	1978年，1978.93.46
策展部门	古代近东艺术（Ancient Near Eastern Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 100 - 公元 100
创作地区
分类
尺寸	0.26 x 0.35 英寸 (0.66 x 0.89 厘米)
介绍（中）	这颗圆形玻璃珠是在伊朗北部的沙赫伊库米斯（Shahr-i Qumis）出土的，该古城已被确定为赫卡托姆皮洛斯（Hecatompylos）古城，由帕提亚人在公元前200年左右建立为首都。在希腊语中，Hecatompylos的意思是"一百个门"，这表明这座城市相当大。事实上，现代考古遗址包括几个土丘，其中只有少数被挖掘出来，以及一个覆盖着盆栽的广阔区域。它来自Site IV，这是一座大型建筑，在公元前1世纪末或公元1世纪初的某个时候完全被泥土填满，英国波斯研究所于1967年在Shahr-i Qumis的发掘是由大都会艺术博物馆共同赞助的。然而，博物馆直到 1978 年才获得这颗珠子，这是由于大都会博物馆为研究所在伊朗另一个地点 Tepe Nush-i Jan 的发掘工作提供了财政捐助。当时伊朗政府允许外国挖掘机保留部分发现，这些挖掘机反过来将在支持这项工作的机构之间分配他们的份额。
介绍（英）	This round glass bead was excavated at Shahr-i Qumis in northern Iran, which has been identified as the ancient city of Hecatompylos, established by the Parthians as their capital by about 200 B.C. In Greek Hecatompylos means ‘a hundred gates,’ suggesting that the city was quite large. Indeed, the modern archaeological site includes several mounds, only a few of which have been excavated, and a vast area covered with potsherds. It comes from Site IV, a large building which was completely filled with dirt sometime in the late 1st century B.C. or early 1st century A.D. The excavations at Shahr-i Qumis by the British Institute of Persian Studies in 1967 were co-sponsored by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. However, the museum did not acquire this bead until 1978, as a result of the Met’s financial contributions to the Institute’s excavations at Tepe Nush-i Jan, another site in Iran. At the time the Iranian government allowed foreign excavators to keep a portion of the finds, and these excavators in turn would divide their share among the institutions that supported the work.