狮子头形状的贴花 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	狮子头形状的贴花
品名（英）	Applique in the shape of a lion's head
入馆年号	1956年，56.154.1
策展部门	古代近东艺术（Ancient Near Eastern Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 600 - 公元前 300
创作地区
分类
尺寸	1 15/16 × 2 5/16 × 1/16 英寸 (4.95 × 5.8 × 0.15 厘米)
介绍（中）	这件金色贴花是狮子头的形状，面朝右侧，张开嘴咆哮。眼睛的轮廓与盖子的轮廓一致。它的鼻子由鼻子和嘴之间以及鼻子上方的一系列凸起的水平线表示，脸颊上有两个分叉的胡须。口腔有两颗犬齿，一颗在上颌，一颗位于下颌，都有垂直的凹槽。狮子的舌头在下牙齿后面可见，嘴唇边缘有两条粗线。脸和鬃毛被一条粗而凸起的线隔开。线的上方是一只尖耳朵，耳朵上有两条垂直的凹槽。镂空鬃毛由十一条从狮子头后面放射出来的粗线组成，中间点缀着凸起的圆点。贴花的背面有五个环，用来将其固定在织物上这件贴花是用锤击一块黄金并切掉鬃毛的开口部分制成的。它最初会附着在衣服上，还有许多其他类似的贴花。波斯波利斯的一些浮雕描绘了波斯国王的长袍上的装饰，可能是为了代表这样的贴花。狮子象征着力量和原始的力量，是阿契美尼德艺术的一个流行特征，尤其是皇家肖像画。事实上，在波斯首都苏萨发掘的琉璃砖上也出现了非常相似的狮头效果图。
介绍（英）	This gold applique is in the form of a lion’s head, facing to the right with its mouth open in a roar. The eye is shown in profile with the lid outlined. Its snout is indicated by a series of raised horizontal lines between the nose and the mouth and above the nose, and two forked whiskers are shown on the cheek. The mouth has two canine teeth, one in the upper jaw and one in the lower, both with a vertical groove. The lion’s tongue is visible behind the lower tooth, and the lips are rendered with two thick lines around the edge of the mouth. The face is separated from the mane by a thick, raised line. Above the line is a pointed ear with two vertical grooves. The openwork mane consists of eleven thick lines radiating from the back of the lion’s head, interspersed with raised dots. The back side of the applique has five rings for attaching it to fabric. This applique was made by hammering a single sheet of gold and cutting out the open parts of the mane. It would have been attached originally to clothing, along with many other similar appliques. Some of the reliefs from Persepolis depicting the Persian king show decorations on his robe that are probably meant to represent appliques like this. Lions, symbolizing strength and raw power, were a popular feature of Achaemenid art, especially royal iconography. Indeed, very similar renderings of lions’ heads appear on glazed bricks excavated at the Persian capital city of Susa.