带有雕刻女性头部的贝壳碎片 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	带有雕刻女性头部的贝壳碎片
品名（英）	Fragment of a shell with a sculpted female head
入馆年号	1955年，55.65.12
策展部门	古代近东艺术（Ancient Near Eastern Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 700 - 公元前 600
创作地区
分类
尺寸	1 13/16 英寸 × 3 1/8 英寸 × 2 英寸 (4.6 × 8 × 5.1 厘米)
介绍（中）	原产于印度洋、红海和波斯湾的一种大型蛤蜊（Tridacna squamosa）的外壳在公元前七世纪末至六世纪初的短时间内被用来雕刻一种独特的化妆品容器。这种类型的容器有一百多个幸存下来，在近东和地中海各地都有发现，东至伊朗，西至意大利。在巴勒斯坦和外约旦发现了未加工的炮弹，这表明制造这些集装箱的车间位于这些地区这个化妆品容器的碎片保留了外壳的厚铰链，它被雕刻成身体被刻在外壳外表面的人物的三维头部。人物非常大的眼睛用双切割线勾勒，瞳孔用钻孔突出。其他的特征被简化了，比如用两条切割线代表的小嘴。前额的山脊暗示着一个头带，它缠绕在后脑勺上，将头发向后固定，头发被表示为单独的羽毛状孵化发。在头发的下边缘可以看到装饰性边界的痕迹，当容器完成时，这种痕迹会继续出现在人物的衣服上。
介绍（英）	The shell of a species of large clam (Tridacna squamosa), native to the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, and the Persian Gulf, was used to carve a distinctive type of cosmetic container during a short period from the late seventh to the early sixth century B.C. More than a hundred containers of this type survive, and have been found throughout the Near East and Mediterranean, as far east as Iran and as far west as Italy. Unworked shells have been found in Palestine and Transjordan, suggesting that the workshops where these containers were manufactured were located in these regions. This fragment of a cosmetic container preserves the thick hinge of the shell, which was carved as the three-dimensional head of the figure whose body was incised on the shell’s outer surface. The figure’s very large eyes are outlined with double incised lines, and the pupils are highlighted with drilled holes. The other features are simplified, such as the small mouth represented by two incised lines. A ridge at the forehead suggests a headband, which wraps around the back of the head, holding back the hair which is represented as individual feather-like hatched locks. Traces of a decorative border can be seen at the lower edge of the hair, which would have continued on the figure’s garment when the container was complete.