带有山羊头的砖块碎片 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	带有山羊头的砖块碎片
品名（英）	Brick fragment with the head of an ibex
入馆年号	1957年，57.27.28
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 800
创作地区
分类
尺寸	4 3/4 × 4 7/16 × 4 3/4 英寸 (12.1 × 11.2 × 12 厘米)
介绍（中）	除了石头浮雕外，亚述宫殿和寺庙也广泛地用彩绘和釉面砖装饰。在陶瓷装饰幸存下来的地方，它经常保存着古老的色彩，几乎没有任何一种现存于石浮雕或象牙家具配件上砖碎片通常显示抽象的几何图案或基于花卉元素的装饰，但也有具象场景。这片碎片保存了山羊的头部，其弯曲的角仍然可见。角的脊部使用黑色V形图案，这种快速交替的黑白或其他对比色图案是亚述艺术的一个常见特征。对眼睛等区域的处理提供了其他媒介中类似特征最初可能是如何着色的线索山羊和山羊在亚述艺术中很常见，有时表现为在山间跳跃。与这一例子最接近的对比者是在Kar Tukulti Ninurta的一幅古老（公元前13世纪）亚述壁画中看到的山羊，它们位于"圣树"的旁边。它们在美索不达米亚具有多种意义，通常是在生育和更新的背景下。与今天一样，野山羊也以其在陡峭和多岩石的地形中移动的能力而闻名：当亚述国王在山区为军队征战艰难和危险的地区时，他们会在铭文中吹嘘自己像山羊一样从岩石跳到岩石。
介绍（英）	As well as reliefs in stone, Assyrian palaces and temples were extensively decorated with painted and glazed brick. Where ceramic decoration has survived, it frequently preserves ancient color, hardly any of which is extant on the stone reliefs or ivory furniture fittings. Brick fragments often show abstract geometric patterns or ornament based on floral elements, but there were also figurative scenes. This fragment preserves the head of a goat, whose curved horns can still be seen. The ridges of the horns are shown using black chevrons, and such rapidly alternating patterns in black and white or other contrasting colors are a common feature of Assyrian art. The treatment of areas such as the eye gives clues as to how similar features in other media might originally have been colored. Goats and ibexes are common in Assyrian art, sometimes shown leaping among mountains. Some of the closest comparators to this example are goats seen in an older (thirteenth century B.C.) Assyrian wall painting at Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta, where they flank a "sacred tree." They had significance of several kinds in Mesopotamia, often in the context of fertility and renewal. As today, wild goats were also noted for their ability to move through steep and rocky terrain: when Assyrian kings had campaigned in the mountains—difficult and dangerous territory for their armies—they would boast in their inscriptions of leaping from rock to rock like goats.