Apkallu图：男性，带鱼皮罩 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	Apkallu图：男性，带鱼皮罩
品名（英）	Apkallu figure: male with a fish-skin hood
入馆年号	1954年，54.117.25
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 5/16 × 1 3/4 × 1 3/8 英寸 (13.5 × 4.5 × 3.5 厘米)
介绍（中）	这个小小的烤泥人是一个留着长发和胡子的男性形象，弓眉下睁着大大的眼睛直视前方。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。他把两个拳头按在胸前，从左到右。表面有光泽的区域是现代的蜡修复。他的高高的圆形头饰表明他穿着一件鱼皮斗篷，这件衣服与亚述祭司有关，很可能将他们与生活在地下淡水王国阿普苏的美索不达米亚神话中的古代先贤联系在一起。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, staring 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 presses both fists to his chest, right above left. Shiny areas of the surface are modern restorations in wax. His tall rounded headdress indicates that he is wearing a fish-skin cloak, a garment associated with Assyrian priests that likely connects them with the ancient sages of Mesopotamian mythology who lived in the Apsu, a subterranean realm of fresh water. 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.