Ewer与拱廊内跳舞的女性 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	Ewer与拱廊内跳舞的女性
品名（英）	Ewer with dancing females within arcades
入馆年号	1967年，67.10a, b
策展部门	古代近东艺术（Ancient Near Eastern Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元 6 - 公元 7
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尺寸	高 of (a) 34 厘米
介绍（中）	晚期萨珊王朝的银器，尤其是瓶子和母羊，经常装饰着手持各种节日物品的女性形象。这些图案的出现证明了与酒神狄奥尼索斯有关的希腊意象的持续影响。在这个镀金的银制器皿上，由低矮的壁柱支撑的花卉拱门构成了四个跳舞的女性形象。每只手都拿着一个仪式物品：葡萄枝和树叶枝、一个器皿、一朵心形花。在一个拱廊下面，鸟儿在啄水果，在另一个拱廊下，一只小豹子在喝母羊的饮料。无论是女性还是她们的装饰图案，都让人想起了酒神的侍从女爵的形象。然而，有人认为，这些人物是根据伊朗女神阿纳希塔的崇拜而改编的。没有任何文本可以解释这些女性形象的外观或功能，但似乎用这样的图案装饰的器皿很可能是为了盛装宫廷庆典或宗教节日的葡萄酒。
介绍（英）	Late Sasanian silver vessels, particularly bottles and ewers, often were decorated with female figures holding a variety of festal objects. The appearance of these motifs attests to the continuing influence of Greek imagery associated with the wine god Dionysus. On this silver-gilt vessel, floral arches, supported by low pilasters, frame four dancing female figures. Each holds a ceremonial object in either hand: grape and leaf branches, a vessel, a heart-shaped flower. Beneath one arcade, birds peck at fruit, and beneath another a tiny panther drinks from a ewer. Both the females and their decorative motifs recall representations of the maenads, attendants of Dionysus. However, it has been suggested that these figures have been adapted to the cult of the Iranian goddess Anahita. No texts survive to explain the appearance or function of these female figures, but it seems likely that vessels decorated with motifs such as these would have been intended to hold wine for court celebrations or religious festivals.