治疗卷轴 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	治疗卷轴
品名（英）	Healing Scroll
入馆年号	1895年，95.66
策展部门	迈克尔·洛克菲勒之翼（The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1800 - 公元 1897
创作地区	埃塞俄比亚（Ethiopia）
分类	隐藏文档（Hide-Documents）
尺寸	宽 6 x 长 78 英寸 (15.24 x 198.12 厘米)
介绍（中）	作为最早进入大都会收藏的非洲物品之一，这幅埃塞俄比亚卷轴是仪式愈合过程的一部分。它是由一位däbtära（一位不受尊敬的神职人员）创造的，目的是让一个人摆脱由邪恶灵魂引起的身体疾病。羊皮纸卷轴由三个交替的护身符图像和祈祷组成，这些图像和祈祷是根据客户的十二生肖选择的。虽然däbtäras从一个共同的主题库中提取来创作卷轴，但任何一个护身符设计都没有固定的符号解释上下图案都是八角星的变体。该主题被解释为"所罗门之海"，或八翼天使，是埃塞俄比亚卷轴中最常见的主题之一。上面的护身符在向圣苏森约斯祈祷之前，圣苏森约斯在专为女性设计的卷轴中被调用。在中央面板中，一名身材高大的男子身穿白色和赭色长袍，上面撒着橙色的星星，左手高举一只有角的野兽。这一场景被解读为亚伯拉罕和艾萨克与献祭的羔羊在一起，或者大天使法努尔与卷轴的主人海拉·米克尔在一起。考虑到卷轴底部对法努尔的祈祷，以及中心人物的翅膀和剑，后者更有可能。这只动物——一只有角的棕色恶魔——被描绘成有一只可见的眼睛，这是埃塞俄比亚描绘邪恶的惯例这幅卷轴的极端长度将近六英尺半，中央面板上对大天使法努尔的描绘表明它被挂在家里。当展示在门对面时，有魔力的天使威胁任何试图进入的灵魂 Kristen Windmuller Luna，2015年
介绍（英）	One of the earliest African objects to enter the Metropolitan’s collection, this Ethiopian scroll was part of a ritual healing process. It was created by a däbtära (an unordained cleric) to rid a person of physical illness caused by malevolent spirits. The parchment scroll is composed of three alternating panels of talismanic imagery and prayers selected according to the client’s zodiac sign. While däbtäras draw from a common pool of motifs to create scrolls, there is no fixed symbolic interpretation for any one talismanic design. The upper and lower motifs are both variations on eight-pointed stars. Interpreted as the "Sea; of Solomon," gätsä säb’e ("face of man"), or an eight-winged angel, the motif is among the most common in Ethiopian scrolls. The upper talisman precedes the prayer to Saint Susenyos, who was invoked in scrolls intended for women. In the central panel, a large man wearing a white and ocher robe sprinkled with orange stars holds a horned beast aloft in his left hand. This scene has variously been interpreted as Abraham and Isaac with the sacrificial lamb, or as the archangel Phanuel alongside the scroll’s owner, Hayla-Mikáel. Given the prayer to Phanuel at the base of the scroll and the central figure’s wings and sword, the latter is more likely. The animal—a horned brown demon—has been depicted with one visible eye, an Ethiopian convention for depicting evil. The extreme length of this scroll—nearly six and a half feet—and the depiction of the archangel Phanuel in its central panel indicate that it was hung in a home. When displayed opposite a door, talismanic angels threatened any spirits who tried to enter. Kristen Windmuller-Luna, 2015