保护女神喇嘛碑 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	保护女神喇嘛碑
品名（英）	Stele of the protective goddess Lama
入馆年号	1961年，61.12
策展部门	古代近东艺术（Ancient Near Eastern Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 1307 - 公元前 1282
创作地区	来自于: （From: ）
分类
尺寸	33 × 12 × 8 英寸, 198 磅 (83.8 × 30.5 × 20.3 厘米)
介绍（中）	这块石碑上雕刻着一位女神，可以通过她的角头饰来识别，面向她的左侧，双臂举起。她把头发向后挽，一把锁在肩膀上，五层裙子上装饰着17行楔形文字。举起双臂以祈祷姿态的"代祷女神"在早期的美索不达米亚艺术中是众所周知的，在那里她被描绘为人类（通常是国王）和高级神或女神之间的中介。在这里，她被铭文确定为保护女神喇嘛。这块石碑是献给女神伊南娜的，"为了"卡西特国王纳粹-马鲁塔什的生命。该铭文用苏美尔语写成，苏美尔语是一种古老的语言，几个世纪前就已经不再使用，它还对任何篡改石碑或将其从视野中移除的人施加了诅咒。这块石碑是一对被认为竖立在乌鲁克的神圣区域，称为Eanna，"天堂之家"，伊南娜在那里被崇拜。它的对应物现在在巴格达的伊拉克博物馆，朝向相反的方向，并刻有相同的铭文。伊安娜区在卡西特时期进行翻新时，近两千年来一直是礼拜场所。这些石碑可能有意借鉴了古老的保护女神形象，该形象在旧巴比伦时期之后大部分已经不再使用，并用早已死去的语言铭文，以提高它们在古代寺庙的有效性。
介绍（英）	This stele is carved with a goddess, identifiable by her horned headdress, facing to her left with arms upraised. She wears her hair pulled back with a lock over her shoulder, and her five-tiered skirt is decorated with 17 lines of cuneiform writing. The "interceding goddess" with arms raised in a gesture of prayer is well-known in earlier Mesopotamian art. where she is shown as an intermediary between a human (usually the king) and a high-ranking god or goddess. Here, she is identified by the inscription as the protective goddess Lama. The stele was dedicated to the goddess Inanna "for the life of" the Kassite king Nazi-Maruttash. Written in Sumerian, an ancient language which had ceased to be spoken centuries earlier, the inscription also places a curse on anyone who would tamper with the stele or remove it from view. This stele was one of a pair that are thought to have been erected in the sacred precinct called Eanna, "House of Heaven," at Uruk, where Inanna was worshipped. Its counterpart, now in the Iraq Museum, Baghdad, faces in the opposite direction and is carved with the same inscription. The Eanna precinct had been the site of worship for nearly two millennia when it was renovated during the Kassite period. These stelae may have intentionally drawn upon the archaic image of the protective goddess, which had mostly fallen out of use after the Old Babylonian period, together with the inscription in a long-dead language to increase their effectiveness at the ancient temple.