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品名（中）	坐着的人
品名（英）	Seated Figure
入馆年号	1981年，1981.218
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 1200 - 公元 1300
创作地区	马里（Mali）
分类	陶瓷雕塑（Ceramics-Sculpture）
尺寸	高 10 × 宽 9 3/4 × 深 11 3/4 英寸 (25.4 × 24.8 × 29.8 厘米)
介绍（中）	这个令人难忘的身影蜷缩在一起，腿紧贴在胸前，头垂在膝盖上。它同时暗示了焦虑的交织张力和深深祈祷的崇高专注。这部优雅的作品创作于700多年前，位于今天马里的尼日尔三角洲内陆地区，其强烈的情感即时性模糊了时间和地点的界限这座陶制雕塑来自一个名为Jenne jeno的遗址，这是撒哈拉以南非洲已知最古老的城市。詹尼耶诺在公元九世纪蓬勃发展，但在1400年衰落并被遗弃。黄铜和铸铁制品、粘土器皿和像这样的人物仍然存在。它们证明了学者们所认为的一个丰富多样、高度复杂的城市社会一些受控制的考古发掘只提供了这个时代和地区艺术最初意义的最模糊的轮廓。复原的陶俑往往非常详细。它们包括珠宝、服装和身体装饰物，如这件作品背面的平行柱状凸起和圆形。有时它们覆盖了整个身体，似乎代表了某种可怕疾病的脓疱。
介绍（英）	This haunting figure huddles with its leg hugged to its chest and its head dropped on its knee. It simultaneously suggests the knotted tension of anxiety and the sublime absorption of deep prayer. Created over 700 years ago, in the Inland Niger Delta region of present-day Mali, this elegant work's intense emotional immediacy blurs the boundaries of time and place. This terracotta sculpture comes from a site called Jenne-jeno, the oldest known city in sub-Saharan Africa. Jenne-jeno flourished in the ninth century A.D., but declined and was abandoned by 1400. Items of cast brass and forged iron, clay vessels, and figures like this one survive. They testify to what scholars contend was a richly varied and highly sophisticated urban society. A few controlled archaeological digs provide only the vaguest outlines of the original significance of the art of this time and region. Recovered terracotta figures are frequently quite detailed. They include jewelry, clothing, and body ornaments such as the parallel columns of bumps and circles on the back of this work. Sometimes they cover the entire body and seem to represent the pustules of some dreadful illness.