大卫杀狮盘 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	大卫杀狮盘
品名（英）	Plate with David Slaying a Lion
入馆年号	1917年，17.190.394
策展部门	中世纪艺术（Medieval Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元 629 - 公元 630
创作地区	制造于: 君士坦丁堡（Made in: Constantinople）
分类	金属制品银（Metalwork-Silver）
尺寸	整体: 5 1/2 x 15/16 英寸, 13.7盎司 (13.9 x 2.4 厘米, 389g) foot: 2 9/16 x 3/8 英寸 (6.5 x 0.9 厘米)
介绍（中）	628-29年，拜占庭皇帝赫拉克勒奥斯（统治时期610-41）成功结束了与波斯的漫长而昂贵的战争，夺回了耶路撒冷、埃及和其他拜占庭领土。这些杰作背面的银制邮票可追溯到613年至29/30年，制造于赫拉克勒奥斯统治时期。盘子上的圣经人物穿着早期拜占庭宫廷的服装，向观众暗示，与扫罗和大卫一样，拜占庭皇帝是上帝选择的统治者。宴会上用来展示的精致菜肴在罗马晚期和拜占庭早期很常见；这些物品通常以古典主题装饰，传达财富、社会地位和学习。这套银盘可能是现存最早使用圣经场景进行此类展示的例子。他们预定的安排可能密切遵循了圣经中的事件顺序，他们的展示可能符合基督的名字的Christogram或花押字的形状为了证明他能杀死歌利亚，大卫向扫罗描述了他是如何杀死一头狮子的（撒母耳记上17:34-37）。大卫流畅的斗篷、狮子的毛皮和鬃毛的自然主义表现出对希腊罗马艺术传统的自觉借鉴和延续。
介绍（英）	In 628–29 the Byzantine emperor Herakleios (r. 610–41) successfully ended a long, costly war with Persia and regained Jerusalem, Egypt, and other Byzantine territory. Silver stamps dating to 613–29/30 on the reverse of these masterpieces place their manufacture in Herakleios’s reign. The biblical figures on the plates wear the costume of the early Byzantine court, suggesting to the viewer that, like Saul and David, the Byzantine emperor was a ruler chosen by God. Elaborate dishes used for display at banquets were common in the late Roman and early Byzantine world; generally decorated with classical themes, these objects conveyed wealth, social status, and learning. This set of silver plates may be the earliest surviving example of the use of biblical scenes for such displays. Their intended arrangement may have closely followed the biblical order of the events, and their display may have conformed to the shape of a Christogram, or monogram for the name of Christ. In order to prove that he can kill Goliath, David describes to Saul how he killed a lion (1 Samuel 17:34–37). The accomplished naturalism of David’s flowing cape and the lion’s fur and mane demonstrates a conscious reference to and continuity of the traditions of Greco-Roman art.