成对猫科动物攻击野山羊的皮带扣 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	成对猫科动物攻击野山羊的皮带扣
品名（英）	Belt buckle with paired felines attacking ibexes
入馆年号	1917年，17.190.1672
策展部门	古代近东艺术（Ancient Near Eastern Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 300 - 公元前 100
创作地区
分类
尺寸	2 5/8 × 3 1/8 × 7/16 英寸 (6.7 × 8 × 1.1 厘米)
介绍（中）	在公元前一千年，许多骑马的游牧部落控制了黑海和里海以北广阔的欧亚草原。一些游牧民族——特别是生活在黑海以北平原的斯基泰部落——被希腊历史学家希罗多德在他的《历史》中描述。但我们也从他们的坟墓中了解它们，里面有各种风格的华丽金色物品，反映了与希腊、波斯和中国的接触。在早期的斯基泰人迁徙之后，萨尔马提亚部落在公元前四世纪从里海以北地区迁移到高加索和欧洲。萨尔马提亚动物风格的艺术以复杂的构图为特色，其中程式化的动物被描绘成扭曲或转回自己或与其他动物战斗。牌匾、扣环和武器通常由贵金属制成，并装饰有石材和玻璃的彩色镶嵌物，其中许多在东方找到了风格上的相似之处。这个铸扣描绘了一个纹章构图，两只猫科动物咬着两只高山羊的脖子，它们的腿折叠在它们下面。虽然对称的动物暗示着斯基泰的背景，但这块牌匾肯定是后来的，也反映了更远的东方艺术环境。
介绍（英）	During the first millennium B.C., many horse-riding nomadic tribes controlled the vast Eurasian steppes to the north of the Black and Caspian seas. Some of the nomadic groups—particularly Scythian tribes that lived in the plains north of the Black Sea—were described by the Greek historian Herodotus in his Histories. But we also know about them from their burial mounds, which contained sumptuous golden objects made in a variety of styles that reflect contacts with Greece, Persia, and China. Following earlier Scythian migrations, Sarmatian tribes moved in the fourth century B.C. from the area north of the Caspian Sea into the Caucasus and Europe. Sarmatian animal-style art is distinguished by complex compositions in which stylized animals are depicted twisted or turned back upon themselves or in combat with other animals. Plaques, clasps, and weapons were frequently made of precious metals and embellished with polychrome inlays of stone and glass, many of which find stylistic parallels in the East. This cast buckle depicts a heraldic composition with two felines biting the necks of two ibexes whose legs are folded beneath them. Although symmetrical confronted animals suggest a Scythian background, this plaque is surely later and also reflects an artistic environment much farther east.