两只鸭子的把手 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	两只鸭子的把手
品名（英）	Handle with two heads of ducks
入馆年号	1962年，62.269.9
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	2 1/4 x 1 3/4 英寸 (5.7 x 4.4 厘米)
介绍（中）	这件物品是在Shalmaneser堡发现的，这是Nimrud的一座皇家建筑，用于存放亚述人在军事行动中收集的战利品和贡品。从该建筑的储藏室中挖掘出数千件象牙雕刻品，可能用作家具装饰或奢侈品。虽然不那么常见，但雕刻的贝壳和骨头也存放在沙勒马内瑟堡。这个大致呈圆柱形的物体是用一块骨头雕刻而成的，上面有背靠背的鸭头浮雕，钞票指向下方，紧贴胸部。中心有一个钻孔点的圆圈标记着每只鸭子的眼睛，图案重复为顶部和底部的圆圈和点的边界。一个洞纵向穿过这件作品，也许是为了插入一个属于器具的柄脚，这个柄脚是装饰把手的一部分。
介绍（英）	This object was found in Fort Shalmaneser, a royal building at Nimrud that was used to store booty and tribute collected by the Assyrians while on military campaign. Many thousands of pieces of carved ivory, probably used as furniture decoration or luxury objects, were excavated from storage rooms in the building. While not as common, carved shell and bone items were also stored at Fort Shalmaneser. This roughly cylindrical object was carved from a piece of bone and decorated with back to back duck’s heads in relief, with bills pointing down and held close to the breast. A circle with drilled dot at the center marks each duck’s eye, and the motif is repeated as a border of circles and dots at the top and bottom. A hole runs through the piece lengthwise, perhaps for inserting a tang that belonged to the implement for which this served as part of a decorated handle.

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