正矢浮雕：有翼的人头狮 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	正矢浮雕：有翼的人头狮
品名（英）	Orthostat relief: winged human-headed lion
入馆年号	1943年，43.135.4
策展部门	古代近东艺术（Ancient Near Eastern Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 1000 - 公元前 800
创作地区
分类
尺寸	26 3/16 × 14 3/4 × 7 7/8 英寸, 430 磅 (66.5 × 37.5 × 20 厘米)
介绍（中）	强大的新亚述帝国在文化和政治上影响了周边地区。在西方，一些小而强大的亚兰城邦充当了亚述和地中海沿岸之间的屏障。这些国家被称为新赫梯城邦，因为它们的王朝连续性和与安纳托利亚的前赫梯人的关系。这些敌对国家通过军事征服逐渐被新亚述帝国控制新赫梯宫殿和寺庙的墙壁传统上用低浮雕雕刻的石板装饰。这块石板描绘了一只长着翅膀的人头狮子。它是古扎纳古阿拉米遗址Tell Halaf发掘的众多文物之一，上面有神奇生物的图像、狩猎场景和仪式宴会。这些浮雕雕刻于公元前十世纪末或九世纪，在亚述征服该地区之前，似乎装饰了一座早期的建筑，然后被重新用于卡帕拉国王宫殿的墙壁上。这座建筑是一种特殊的当地形式，被称为"小希拉尼"，由两个平行的长房间组成，其中一个房间有一个柱子入口。
介绍（英）	The powerful Neo-Assyrian Empire influenced the surrounding region culturally as well as politically. In the west a number of small but powerful Aramaean city-states acted as a barrier between Assyria and the Mediterranean coast. These have been called Neo-Hittite city-states because of their dynastic continuity and relation to the preceding Hittites of Anatolia. These rival states were gradually brought under the control of the Neo-Assyrian Empire by military conquest. Stone slabs carved in low relief had traditionally decorated the walls of the Neo-Hittite palaces and temples. This slab depicts a winged human-headed lion. It is one of many excavated at Tell Halaf, the ancient Aramaean site of Guzana, bearing images of fantastic creatures, hunting scenes, and ceremonial banquets. Carved in the late tenth or ninth century B.C., before the Assyrian conquests of the region, the reliefs appear to have embellished an earlier building and then been reused on the walls of the palace of King Kapara. This building was a special local form known as a bit hilani, composed of two parallel long rooms, one of which had a pillared entrance.