女性的头部 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	女性的头部
品名（英）	Head of a female
入馆年号	1989年，1989.281.7
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	7 3/16 × 6 7/16 × 5 7/8 英寸 (18.2 × 16.4 × 15 厘米)
介绍（中）	这个头部在颈部断裂，内部中空，描绘了一个女性形象，齐肩的头发在她的头上和脸旁边编成辫子。她有一双大眼睛，一个小小的瘦削的微笑，大耳朵从她的头发上伸出来。她脖子上的七条带子代表一条多股项链。头部似乎是用粘土团手工制成的，然后烧制并上漆。粘土的质量——经过有机物的调和——可能是其保存不佳的部分原因。根据只出现在外表面而不是底部裂缝上的污垢水垢，头部很可能最初是一个更大人物的一部分，全身表现。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，但我们确实有证据表明，各种粘土人物都是寺庙的守护者。
介绍（英）	This head, broken at the neck and hollow on the inside, depicts a female figure with shoulder length hair arranged in bands of braids around her head and alongside her face. She has large eyes, a small thin smile, and large ears protrude from her hair. Seven bands around her neck represent a multi-strand necklace. The head appears to have been hand-formed out of wads of clay, then fired and painted. The quality of the clay – tempered with organic matter – may account, in part, for its poor preservation. Based on incrustations of dirt that appear only on the exterior surface and not on the bottom break, it seems likely that the head was originally part of a larger figure. 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 we do have evidence for various clay figures that served as temple guardians.