撒母耳为大卫画像的盘子 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	撒母耳为大卫画像的盘子
品名（英）	Plate with David Anointed by Samuel
入馆年号	1917年，17.190.398
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: 10 1/2 x 1 1/2 英寸, 47.1盎司 (26.6 x 3.8 厘米, 1334g) foot: 4 13/16 x 1/2 英寸 (12.2 x 1.3 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或花押字的形状先知撒母耳承认大卫是上帝所拣选的人，为他膏油（撒母耳上书16:13）。大卫的父亲杰西和他的两个兄弟在一旁观看。撒母耳下面的小牛、刀和祭坛指的是他本应在伯利恒献上的祭品（撒母耳上书16:1-3）；大卫下面的公羊和杖象征着他作为家族羊群的守护者的角色（撒母耳记上16:11）。
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. The prophet Samuel, recognizing David as God’s chosen one, anoints him (1 Samuel 16:13). David’s father, Jesse, and two of his brothers watch. The calf, knife, and altar below Samuel refer to the sacrifice he was supposed to offer in Bethlehem (1 Samuel 16:1–3); the ram and staff below David signify his role as keeper of his family’s flock (1 Samuel 16:11).