Scabbard chape公司 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	Scabbard chape公司
品名（英）	Scabbard chape
入馆年号	1996年，1996.53
策展部门	古代近东艺术（Ancient Near Eastern Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 600 - 公元前 500
创作地区
分类
尺寸	1 7/16 × 1 5/16 × 11/16 英寸 (3.65 × 3.25 × 1.8 厘米)
介绍（中）	这是一把短剑的鞘尾。它的两侧都装饰着一种风格化的有角动物的浮雕，可能是山羊或公牛，它们的身体蜷缩着，后腿在脸前面。它的背部呈圆顶形状，形成剑鞘的末端，与生物的臀部和弯曲的角一起形成三角形。礼拜堂是由铜合金制成的，最初用两个铆钉连接在剑鞘的其余部分，尽管剑鞘本身显然没有有许多小教堂装饰着这种由金属或象牙制成的动物图案。它们与阿契美尼德波斯帝国联系在一起，因为波斯波利斯浮雕中描绘的许多鞘具有非常相似的图像。这些滚动的动物也出现在斯基泰人的艺术中。与波斯人一样，斯基泰人语为伊朗语，起源于中亚，这种共同的图像表明了他们的共同起源和密切联系。事实上，波斯人统计了几个不同的斯基泰人群体（古波斯语称为"萨卡"），包括"海外的斯基泰人"、"喝斯基泰酒的豪马人"和"戴尖帽子的斯基台人"
介绍（英）	This is a chape – the endpiece of a scabbard for a short sword. It is decorated on either side with a relief of a stylized horned animal, perhaps a goat or bull, whose body is curled up such that its hindleg is front of its face. Its back, in the shape of a dome, forms the very end of the scabbard, which, together with the creature’s rump and curved horns, create a triangular composition. The chape is made of a cooper alloy and would have originally been attached to the rest of the scabbard with two rivets which still survive, even though the scabbard itself evidently does not. There are many chapes decorated with rolled animal motifs of this sort, made of metal or ivory. They are associated with the Achaemenid Persian Empire because many of the scabbards depicted in the reliefs at Persepolis feature very similar imagery. These rolled animals also appear prominently in Scythian art. Like the Persians, the Scythians were an Iranian-speaking people originating in Central Asia, and this shared imagery indicates both their common origin and close contacts. Indeed, the Persians counted several different groups of Scythians (called ‘Saka’ in Old Persian), including the ‘Scythians beyond the sea,’ the ‘haoma-drinking Scythians’ and the ‘Scythians with pointed hats,’ among their subjects