Ewer IX-X secolo questo ewer in ceramica è stato scavato nel sito della Madrasa Tepe a Nishapur. Nishapur era una città vitale nel primo e medio periodo islamico, situata lungo una delle principali traiettorie che collegavano l'Iran e le terre islamiche dell'Asia occidentale con l'Asia centrale e la Cina. Questi itinerari sono spesso indicati con il termine “vie della seta”, ma erano in realtà cruciali per il movimento di costellazioni di materiali e oggetti, nonché di persone e idee. La variegata popolazione di Nishapur e dei suoi dintorni, dai gruppi d'élite meglio studiati di mercanti, dall'aristocrazia terriera e li

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Ewer 9th–10th century This ceramic ewer was excavated at the site of Tepe Madrasa in Nishapur.Nishapur was a vital city in the early and middle Islamic periods, located along one of the main trajectories that connected Iran and West Asia Islamic lands with Central Asia and China. These itineraries are often referred by the term ‘Silk routes’ but were in fact crucial to the movement of constellations of materials and objects, as well as people and ideas. The diverse population of Nishapur and its surroundings, from the better-researched elite groups of merchants, land-owning aristocracy, and literates, to the less-known artisans, farmers, miners, and servants, were instrumental in adapting global cultural trends to create their own distinctive visual languages. This is seen in the material remains of everyday life in medieval Nishapur – from pots and pans to lighting devices, inkwells, textiles and trimmings, jewelry, games and toys, talismanic devices, weapons, coins, and architectural fragments.Nishapur lost its political prominence due to a series of earthquakes and invasions that peaked in the thirteenth century. Today, the medieval city is a vast archaeological area, while the relatively small modern city is situated to its north. Instead, Mashhad, a major pilgrimage site, emerged as a major prosperous metropolis in the region. Between 1935 and 1948, the "Persian Expedition" of the Metropolitan Museum of Art excavated at several sites at Nishapur under an agreement with the Iranian authorities. The recovered artifacts were divided in half between the two countries, resulting in over four thousand objects in the Met’s collection today.　As part of the larger "Persian Expedition" project at Nishapur, American archaeologists and hundreds of Iranian workers excavated a mound named Tepe Madrasa. There, they uncovered an architectural complex which they tentatively associated with a palace or governmental center because of the solidity of the built structur