带有地毯设计的门槛路面板 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	带有地毯设计的门槛路面板
品名（英）	Threshold pavement slab with a carpet design
入馆年号	X.153
策展部门	古代近东艺术（Ancient Near Eastern Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 700 - 公元前 600
创作地区
分类
尺寸	33 3/4 × 29 1/8 × 2 9/16 英寸 (85.7 × 74 × 6.5 厘米)
介绍（中）	这个门槛是旨在模仿后来亚述宫殿门口使用的地毯的多个例子之一。从某种意义上说，它们是在大量使用的空间（例如门口）中地毯磨损的日常实际问题的解决方案，但是这种解决方案非常昂贵和劳动密集型，以至于将它们的使用视为现实中的实用措施是没有意义的。像所有亚述浮雕一样，他们的采石、运输和雕刻涉及困难和耗时的工作。它们也会被涂漆，在真正的地毯最终需要更换的地方，这些面板可能需要定期重新粉刷。亚述人的宫殿里铺满了精美的地毯和帷幔，但没有一个幸存下来。由于湿度水平波动，盐度通常非常高，美索不达米亚土壤不太适合保存有机材料。与埃及不同，埃及非常稳定的干燥条件使大量纺织品得以生存，美索不达米亚考古学中纺织品碎片的恢复很少。纺织品在其他媒体中的表示有助于弥补这种损失，特别是当像这里这样详细描绘了真实地毯中使用的设计和图案时。
介绍（英）	This doorsill is one of multiple examples designed to mimic a carpet that were used in doorways within the later Assyrian palaces. In a sense, they are a solution to the everyday practical problem of carpet wear in a heavily used space (e.g., a doorway), but a solution so signally expensive and labor-intensive that it does not make sense to see their use as a practical measure in reality. Like all Assyrian reliefs, their quarrying, transport, and carving involved difficult and time-consuming work. They would also have been painted, and where real carpet would eventually need replacing, these panels would presumably have needed to be repainted regularly. The Assyrian palaces were filled with fine carpets and hangings, but none survive. With fluctuating moisture levels and often very high salinity, the Mesopotamian soil is not well suited to the preservation of organic materials. Unlike in Egypt, where very stable dry conditions have allowed significant quantities of textiles to survive, the recovery of textile fragments in Mesopotamian archaeology is rare. Representations of textiles in other media help to compensate for this loss, particularly when, as here, the designs and patterns that would have been used in real carpets are depicted in detail.