男性的头部 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	男性的头部
品名（英）	Head of a male
入馆年号	1972年，1972.96
策展部门	古代近东艺术（Ancient Near Eastern Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 2000 - 公元前 1600
创作地区
分类
尺寸	高 7 1/16 × 宽 5 1/2 英寸 (18 × 14 厘米)
介绍（中）	这只脖子上断了的头描绘了一个没有胡子的男性形象。这只男性摆出一个专注的姿势：他的额头上有皱纹，眼睛又大又黑，鼻孔看起来是张开的，耳朵竖起并从头部两侧突出。薄唇微微一笑。雕刻的人字形图案赋予他帽状发型质感。不同寻常的是，这只雄性被描绘成没有胡子，脖子上有两个水平的凹槽——也许是为了代表某种项圈或珠宝。尽管这个头像的雕刻很用心，但粘土本身的质量很差，有很多夹杂物。头部是古代烧制的，皮肤上的红色油漆和头发上的黑色痕迹表明这是最初绘制的。头部底部有一个小洞公元前两千年早期，古伊拉克和伊朗都有几尊陶俑的头部和半身像。这些陶俑中的许多似乎最初是一个更大的、可能是复合的全身图像的一部分。像这个人物一样，他们经常有专注的表情，有些人双手紧握。这样的表情和姿势让人想起了早期较小的石头崇拜者形象。我们对公元前两千年早期的还愿人物知之甚少，但有证据表明，各种粘土人物都是寺庙的守护者。
介绍（英）	This head, broken at the neck, depicts a beardless male figure. The male is in an attentive pose: his forehead is furrowed, his eyes are large and heavily rimmed, his nostrils appear to be flared, and his ears are raised and protrude from the sides of his head. Thin lips are shown in a slight smile. A carved herringbone pattern gives texture to his cap-like hairdo. Unusually, this male is depicted beardless, and on his neck are two horizontal grooves – perhaps to represent some kind of collar or jewelry. Despite the care given to the carving of this head, the clay itself is of a rather poor quality, with numerous inclusions. The head was fired in antiquity and traces of red paint on his skin and black on his hair indicate that it was originally painted. There is a small cavity in the base of the head. Several terracotta heads and busts are known from both ancient Iraq and Iran in the early second millennium B.C. It seems likely that many of these terracottas were originally part of a larger, perhaps composite, full body representation. Like this figure, they often have attentive expressions, and some are shown with clasped hands. Such expressions and postures call to mind the smaller stone worshiper figures of the Early Dynastic period. We know very little about votive figures in the early second millennium B.C., but there is evidence that various clay figures served as temple guardians.