哺乳期妇女 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	哺乳期妇女
品名（英）	Nursing woman
入馆年号	1926年，26.7.1405
策展部门	埃及艺术（Egyptian Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 2420 - 公元前 2389
创作地区	来自于: 埃及（From: Egypt）
分类
尺寸	高 10.5 厘米 (4 1/8 英寸)
介绍（中）	这个女人坐在地上，单膝抬起。在裙子伸过膝盖的布吊床上，她抱着一个孩子，黄色的皮肤表明她是一个女孩。妇女用一只手按住孩子的头，另一只手将乳房献给孩子。孩子的头向后倾斜，要么像哺乳的孩子那样凝视着女人，要么因为她无法触及乳房而沮丧。在女人身后，一个涂成红色的男孩跪下，把她的第二个乳房拉到她的胳膊下，这样他也可以哺乳。在古王国服务小雕像中，有孩子的妇女是一个非标准的主题;事实上，这是描绘护理的唯一例子。在浮雕中更常见地看到为有孩子的妇女服务：在一个坟墓中，一个孩子在母亲磨谷物时紧紧抱着母亲的背，而在附近，另一个女人在照顾烤面包时照顾一个孩子。事实上，这里小雕像中的女人戴着白头巾，就像许多准备食物的妇女一样，大概是为了防止面粉等从头发上沾来，这可能意味着这个女人在花点时间照顾孩子时参与了这些任务。
介绍（英）	This woman sits on the ground with one knee raised. Against the hammock of cloth formed by her skirt stretched over her knee she holds a child whose yellow skin indicates she is a girl. With one hand the woman holds the child's head, while with the other she offers her breast to the child. The child's head is tilted back, either to gaze at the woman as nursing children may do, or perhaps in frustration as she cannot reach the breast. Behind the woman a red-painted and therefore male child kneels and pulls her second breast beneath her arm so that he can nurse, too. Among Old Kingdom serving statuettes, women with children are a non-standard subject; indeed this is the only example depicting nursing. Serving women with children are seen more often in reliefs: in one tomb a child clings to his mother's back while she grinds grain, and nearby another woman nurses a child while she tends baking bread. The fact that the woman in the statuette here wears a white kerchief as do so many of the women in food preparation tasks, presumably to keep flour and such from their hair, may imply that this woman was involved in such tasks when she takes a moment to care for the children.