皮带扣 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	皮带扣
品名（英）	Belt clasp
入馆年号	1921年，21.166.5
策展部门	古代近东艺术（Ancient Near Eastern Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1 - 公元 200
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分类
尺寸	4 3/16 × 4 1/8 × 13/16 英寸 (10.7 × 10.5 × 2.1 厘米)
介绍（中）	在公元前二千年后期，活泼的动物装饰青铜器的传统始于高加索地区。在包括斧头和别针在内的许多青铜工具上可以看到具有小腰，拱形颈部和背部的程式化动物，并且在青铜时代晚期和早期铁器时代开始时在格鲁吉亚，亚美尼亚，阿塞拜疆和北高加索地区发现。在格鲁吉亚共和国出土了与此类似的铸铜带扣，是该地区公元最初几个世纪的独特产物。这个方形的例子以高度风格化的雄鹿为特色，夸张的以切开的同心圆为标志。动物受到鸟类从下方和面部的攻击。S形螺旋完成了中央镂空设计，在雄鹿背部上方有一个程式化的角动物头。人字形图案的边框在角落处用凸起的圆形旋钮框住了场景。这个物体作为皮带扣的功能可以从后面的环和短舌推测。
介绍（英）	In the late second millennium B.C., the tradition of lively animal-ornamented bronzes begins in the Caucasus region. Stylized animals with small waists, arched necks and backs are seen on numerous bronze tools including axes and pins, and are found in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the Northern Caucasus by the beginning of the Late Bronze and Early Iron ages. Cast-bronze belt clasps similar to this one have been excavated in the Republic of Georgia and are a distinctive product of that region in the first few centuries A.D. This square example features a highly stylized stag, with exaggerated haunches marked by incised concentric circles. The animal is attacked both from below and in the face by birds. The S-shaped spirals complete the central openwork design, with a stylized horned animal head above the back of the stag. A herringbone-patterned border frames the scene with raised rounded knobs at the corners. The function of this object as a belt clasp is surmised from the loop and short tongue at the back.