神奇的人物 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	神奇的人物
品名（英）	Magical Figure
入馆年号	1933年，33.1.128
策展部门	埃及艺术（Egyptian Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 1981 - 公元前 1640
创作地区	来自于: 埃及（From: Egypt）
分类
尺寸	高 7.2 厘米 (2 13/16 英寸); 宽 4 厘米 (1 9/16 英寸)
介绍（中）	这些带有粗糙表面的未烧制粘土板是由博物馆的挖掘机在利什特南部森沃斯雷坦克（Senwosretankh）马斯塔巴以西的松散地表沙子中发现的，森沃斯雷坦克是一名高级官员，可能是森沃斯雷特一世（约公元前1961年至1917年）金字塔建筑群的建筑师，他在马斯塔巴以东建造了自己的非常精致的马斯塔巴陵墓（见编号33.1.2和其他作品）。然而，其中一些泥人和小棺材（编号33.1.66）的埋葬时间肯定比发现它们的十二王朝早期陵墓晚得多。事实上，在第十三王朝及其后的王朝中，人们在传说中的统治者金字塔及其附属纪念碑周围的神圣区域存放了许多物品，相信强大的魔力可以因此释放。例如，这些扁平的泥人用褪色的红色油漆刻上了被认定为敌人的人的名字（其中大多数是埃及人，但也有一些是外国名字）。他们的沉积可能被认为影响了他们的毁灭。
介绍（英）	These tablets of unfired clay with attached crude faces were found as a group by the Museum's excavators at Lisht South in loose surface sand west of the mastaba of Senwosretankh, a high official and possibly the architect of the pyramid complex of Senwosret I (ca. 1961–1917 B. C.), east of which he erected his own very elaborate mastaba tomb (see acc. nos. 33.1.2 and other pieces). The mud figures and little coffin (acc. no. 33.1.66) that had contained some of them must have been buried, however, considerably later than the early twelfth dynasty tomb close to which they were found. In fact, during the thirteenth and following dynasties people deposited a number of objects in the by then sacred area around a legendary ruler's pyramid and its dependant monuments, believing conceivably that potent magical powers could thus be released. These flat mud figures, for instance, are inscribed in now much-faded red paint with the names of men identified as enemies (most of them Egyptians but some with foreign names). Their deposition may have been thought to effect their destruction.