带有两个zebu的容器 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	带有两个zebu的容器
品名（英）	Vessel with two zebu
入馆年号	2014年，2014.717
策展部门	古代近东艺术（Ancient Near Eastern Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 2600 - 公元前 2350
创作地区
分类
尺寸	4 1/2 × 2 3/4 × 2 3/4 英寸 (11.4 × 7 × 7 厘米)
介绍（中）	这艘船特别令人感兴趣，原因有两个。首先，它扩大了带有来自印度河流域的图像的"跨文化风格"绿泥石容器的语料库。其次，它归因于塔鲁特岛东海岸的拉菲亚。在这里发现了相当多的带有精美人物图案的零碎例子，也许最初打算运往美索不达米亚的寺庙仓库。以雕刻和镶嵌技术描绘的是两辆 zebus 在丰富的景观中一个接一个地跨步。动物的模型身体轮廓鲜明，以"跨文化风格"船只的特征从平面背景中出现。它们的眼睛、口吻、角和驼峰通过深切口和宽阔的曲线清晰区分。驼峰不像其他例子那样有图案，而是装饰有圆形的镶嵌区域，就像其他船只上用来指示豹子外套上的斑点一样。这里保存着一些白色的石头镶嵌物。镶嵌物还被用来突出动物弯曲的胡须和背景中的花卉元素。非常有趣的是背景的处理，背景覆盖着几何图案，以"概念"视角暗示山脉、水，也许还有陆地，其中景深对应于高度。山脉被描绘成一系列重叠的嵌套扇贝，形成类似于有时覆盖大面积此类船只的灌染图案。下面是以螺旋钩结束的波浪线的水平流，这些波浪线似乎从弯曲的平行线出现在动物的头部后面，这可能表明一条河流。动物腿间的花朵也许是为了指示它们行走的河岸。
介绍（英）	This vessel is of particular interest for two reasons. First, it enlarges the corpus of "Intercultural Style" chlorite vessels bearing imagery derived from the Indus Valley. Second, it is attributed to Al-Rafiah, on the east coast of the island of Tarut. Here a considerable number of fragmentary examples with elaborate figural motifs have been found, perhaps originally intended for shipment to the temple repositories of Mesopotamia. Depicted in a carved and inlaid technique are two zebus striding one behind the other in a rich landscape. The modeled bodies of the animals are starkly outlined, emerging from a flat background in a manner characteristic of "Intercultural Style" vessels. Their eyes, muzzles, horns, and humps are sharply differentiated by deep incisions and sweeping curves. The humps are not patterned as in other examples but are embellished with circular areas of inlay, like those used on other vessels to indicate the spots on leopards' coats. Here a few white stone insets survive. Inlays were also used to accentuate the animals' curved beards and floral elements in the background. Of great interest is the treatment of the background, which is covered with geometric patterning to suggest mountains, water, and perhaps land in a "conceptual" perspective, where depth of field corresponds to height. The mountains are depicted as a series of overlapping, nested scallops, forming a pattern similar to the imbrications that sometime cover large areas of vessels of this type. Below are horizontal streams of wavy lines ending in a spiral hook, which seem to emerge behind the animals' heads from curving parallel lines that probably indicate a river. The flowers between the legs of the animals are perhaps meant to indicate the riverbank along which they walk.