Footed goblet

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This goblet has a globular body, a wide mouth, and a high foot. It is made of a gritty, yellowish-buff clay, and much of the body is restored. It was excavated at Zarde Savar, a small cemetery site in Luristan in the Zagros Mountains of western Iran. The shape is comparable to those of Late Bronze Age vessels excavated at Tepe Giyan to the east. Thus this goblet, and the cemetery at Zarde Savar, perhaps also date to this period.

Ancient Near Eastern Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met's Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art cares for approximately 7,000 works ranging in date from the eighth millennium B.C. through the centuries just beyond the emergence of Islam in the seventh century A.D. Objects in the collection were created by people in the area that today comprises Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Syria, the Eastern Mediterranean coast, Yemen, and Central Asia. From the art of some of the world's first cities to that of great empires, the department's holdings illustrate the beauty and craftsmanship as well as the profound interconnections, cultural and religious diversity, and lasting legacies that characterize the ancient art of this vast region.

Metropolitan Museum of Art