带角动物的圆形 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	带角动物的圆形
品名（英）	Roundel with horned animals
入馆年号	1989年，1989.281.29
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 600
创作地区
分类
尺寸	2 1/2 英寸 (6.4 厘米)
介绍（中）	这个圆顶形物体可能装饰了一个鞍子，即匕首末端的旋钮或剑柄与刀片相对。它由一个外壳盘组成，通过穿过中心的铆钉连接到铜合金背衬上。铆钉的头部覆盖着一块金箔。圆盘的边缘有一个装饰图案，由一个金箔框架组成，以互锁三角形的图案排列，其中镶嵌着小嵌体。这些小镶嵌物中的许多已经变质或完全丢失，剩下的似乎是由雕刻的贝壳制成的。镶嵌在圆盘表面的是四个柱塞，以轮廓显示，从头到尾排列，头部朝向中心。在壳表面的许多区域被挖空以形成公羊的身体，可以看到黑色残留物。这可能是沥青的痕迹，沥青是一种用作粘合剂的焦油状物质。公羊的轮廓由金箔条形成，这些金箔条最初可能已镶嵌在沥青中。他们的身体镶嵌在对比鲜明的材料中，也许是一块柔软的石头，现在已经退化成粉末状物质。
介绍（英）	This dome-shaped object may have decorated a pommel, the knob on the end of a dagger or sword handle opposite the blade. It is composed of a disc of shell, attached to a copper alloy backing by a rivet going through the center. The head of the rivet is covered with a sheet of gold foil. Around the edge of the disc runs a decorative pattern, formed of a gold foil frame arranged in a pattern of interlocking triangles, into which small inlays were set. Many of these small inlays have deteriorated or been lost completely, and those which remain appear to be made of carved shell. Inlaid into the surface of the disc are four rams, shown in profile and arranged head-to-tail with heads toward the center. In many areas of the shell surface that was hollowed out to form the bodies of the rams, a black residue is visible. This may be traces of bitumen, a tar-like substance that was used as an adhesive. The outlines of the rams are formed from strips of gold foil that may originally have been set into bitumen. Their bodies were inlaid in a contrasting material, perhaps a soft stone, which has now deteriorated into a powdery substance.