手持长矛的胡子武士 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	手持长矛的胡子武士
品名（英）	Bearded warrior holding a spear
入馆年号	1954年，54.117.24
策展部门	古代近东艺术（Ancient Near Eastern Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 900 - 公元前 700
创作地区
分类
尺寸	5 11/16 × 1 3/4 × 1 1/8 英寸 (14.4 × 4.5 × 2.85 厘米)
介绍（中）	这个小的烤泥人的形状是一个男性，留着长长的头发和胡子，呈波浪状，用水平的山脊表示。他戴着圆顶帽或头盔，与头发的光滑表面不同。那人眼睛睁得大大的，直直地盯着前方。还可以看到突出的鼻子和紧闭的小嘴，尽管这些特征的细节程度很低。他双手合十放在胸前，胸前压着一把从模具中取出后刻在雕像上的矛尖。该人物显然将武器的轴握在手中，但由于时间的推移，无法再看到轴和人物下半身等细节；有光泽的地方是现代的蜡制修复。雕像是通过将粘土压入模具制成的，这是美索不达米亚至少从乌尔三世时期（约公元前2100-2000年）以来制造牌匾和雕像的常见方法。一千年后，在新亚述时期，魔术从业者已经开发出了保护建筑内部空间的技术，通过一种仪式，将一组雕像放在房间的地板下。这尊雕像被发现埋在亚述皇家城市尼姆鲁德一座宫殿建筑的一个房间里的地板下，这表明它是为了这个功能。
介绍（英）	This small baked clay figurine takes the form of a male figure with long hair and beard that fall in waves, indicated by horizontal ridges. He wears a domed hat or helmet, differentiated from his hair by its smooth surface. The figure stares straight ahead with large, wide-open eyes beneath arched eyebrows. A prominent nose and small, closed mouth can also be seen, although the level of detail in the features is minimal. He holds both hands to his chest with fists closed, and pressed against his chest is a spear tip incised into the figurine after it had been removed from the mold. The figure apparently holds the weapon’s shaft in his hands, although because of damage over time, details such as the shaft and the lower body of the figure can no longer be seen; the shiny areas are modern restorations in wax. The figurine was made by pressing clay into a mold, a common method of manufacturing plaques and figurines in Mesopotamia since at least the Ur III period (ca. 2100-2000 B.C.). A thousand years later, during the Neo-Assyrian period, practitioners of magic had developed techniques for protecting interior spaces of buildings by means of a ritual that involved depositing an assemblage of figurines beneath the room’s floor. This figure was found buried under the floor in a room in a palace building at the Assyrian royal city of Nimrud, suggesting that it was intended for this function.