裸体女性形象 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	裸体女性形象
品名（英）	Nude female figure
入馆年号	1934年，34.126.53
策展部门	古代近东艺术（Ancient Near Eastern Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 800 - 公元前 600
创作地区
分类
尺寸	7 1/4 × 3 7/16 × 2 5/8 英寸 (18.4 × 8.8 × 6.7 厘米)
介绍（中）	这种类型的柱子雕像是当时犹大王国大量生产的典型雕像。Tell el-Duweir是古代的Lachish，犹大的主要防御中心，被西拿基立（公元前701年）领导的亚述军队摧毁。这座城市的命运被记录在圣经中，并在尼尼微亚述宫殿的墙壁浮雕中有所体现。这个带有柱子底座的女神雕像是裸体的，用手支撑着她的乳房。头部简单呈现为短而紧密卷曲的帽状发型，铰接成脊状，面部特征是模制的，清晰清晰。这个图像和带有裸体女性形象的粘土牌匾上的图像可能代表生育或母亲女神。这些小雕像是在家庭环境中发现的，并指向与一神论犹太教共存的流行邪教。外部影响在当时的古代以色列和犹大的宗教中很明显，叙利亚崇拜亚舍拉的邪教可能是一种影响。亚舍拉是迦南万神殿首领埃尔的妻子，可能是迦南和后来犹太传统中众神的母亲。古代以色列的一些文学证据甚至说亚舍拉是耶和华本人的配偶。
介绍（英）	This type of pillar figurine is typical of those produced in great numbers in the kingdom of Judah at this time. Tell el-Duweir is ancient Lachish, the major fortified center in Judah that was destroyed by the Assyrian army under Sennacherib (701 B.C.). The city's fate is chronicled in the Bible and represented in wall reliefs from the Assyrian palace at Nineveh. This buxom goddess figurine with pillar base is nude and supports her breasts in her hands. The head is simply rendered with a short, tightly curled caplike hairdo articulated in ridges, and the facial features are mold-made and clearly articulated. This imagery and that on clay plaques with nude female figures probably represents fertility or mother goddesses. The figurines are found in domestic contexts and point to popular cults that coexisted with monotheistic Judaism. Outside influences are evident in the religion of ancient Israel and Judah at this time, and Syrian cults focusing on the worship of Asherah may have been an influence. Asherah was the wife of El, head of the Canaanite pantheon, and probably the mother of the gods in Canaanite and later Jewish tradition. Some literary evidence in ancient Israel even speaks of Asherah as the consort of Yahweh himself.