阿蒙神之首 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	阿蒙神之首
品名（英）	Head of the god Amun
入馆年号	1907年，07.228.34
策展部门	埃及艺术（Egyptian Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 1336
创作地区	可能来自: （Probably from: ）
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尺寸	高 44 厘米 (17 5/16 英寸), 宽 38.2 (15 1/16 英寸); 深 41.5 (16 5/16 英寸)
介绍（中）	辫子胡须和带有双羽毛残余的平顶帽表明这位神是阿蒙。他的小眼睛与圆润的眉脊被弯曲的凹陷隔开;他宽阔的脸上露出饱满的嘴唇，轮廓清晰，从侧面看，下巴略微下垂。这些特征与图坦卡蒙国王的特征非常相似，并标志着这件作品是他的作品。这座雕像当然是为阿蒙在底比斯的大神庙卡纳克（Karnak）而建造的，作为图坦卡蒙修复在阿肯那顿统治期间被污损或摧毁的神纪念碑的一部分。许多雕塑描绘了阿蒙触摸图坦卡蒙的王冠，图坦卡蒙站在他面前或跪在他面前。然而，对于这样的构图来说，这个头似乎非常大;因此，头部很可能最初属于一个大型的独立或坐着的神像。这件作品与晚期阿玛纳艺术之间的相似之处表明，在图坦卡蒙统治期间，来自阿玛纳的雕塑家活跃在底比斯。嘴巴郁郁葱葱的身体与阴影眉毛下小眼睛遥远而隐蔽的凝视相结合，营造出一种紧张感。这些特征——就像晚期阿玛纳艺术一样，就像中王国晚期雕塑的类似张力一样——可能是为了传达一种内在性或反射性。
介绍（英）	The braided beard and the flat cap with remnants of double plumes identify this god as Amun. His small eyes are separated by a curved depression from the rounded brow ridge; his broad face shows full lips with sharp contours, and, from the side, a slightly drooping chin. These features closely parallel those of King Tutankhamun and mark the piece as his commission. The statue was certainly created for Karnak, Amun's great temple at Thebes, as part of Tutankhamun's restoration of the god's monuments that had been defaced or destroyed during the reign of Akhenaten. A number of sculptures depict Amun touching the crown of Tutankhamun, who stands or kneels before him. This head seems very large for such a composition, however; thus it is likely that the head originally belonged to a large freestanding or seated figure of the god. The similarities between this piece and late Amarna art suggest that sculptors from Amarna were active in Thebes during Tutankhamun's reign. The combination of the lush physicality of the mouth with the distant, veiled gaze of the small eyes beneath shadowing brows creates a tension. These features-as in late Amarna art, and like similar tensions in the faces of late Middle Kingdom sculptures,-were probably meant to convey a kind of interiority or reflectiveness.