奶牛的头部，从墙上出现的奶牛的正面形象 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	奶牛的头部，从墙上出现的奶牛的正面形象
品名（英）	Cow's Head from a frontal representation of a cow emerging from a wall
入馆年号	1923年，23.3.751
策展部门	埃及艺术（Egyptian Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 664 - 公元前 610
创作地区	来自于: 埃及（From: Egypt）
分类
尺寸	高 22 厘米 (8 11/16 英寸); 宽 15.8 厘米 (6 1/4 英寸); 深 10.6 厘米 (4 3/16 英寸)
介绍（中）	最近在奈斯佩卡舒特墓（见23.3.468）的研究表明，这头由博物馆在20世纪20年代挖掘的牛头站在一尊被包裹的雕像上方。这头牛被描绘成从坟墓第二个房间的北墙假门龛中出现，被包裹的人像代表着墓主人奈斯佩卡舒特，靠在它的胸口自中王国以来，保护国王的奶牛雕像与底比斯Deir el Bahri山上对哈托尔的崇拜有关。在拉美西斯时期，哈托尔保护国王的雕像被包括在萨卡拉的一些非王室陵墓中，到拉美西斯时期晚期，已知有一个例子描绘了奶牛保护非王室人士。Hathoric图像在第三中间时期仍然很流行，但装饰过的陵墓直到Kushite Saite时期才恢复。随着这一点，奶牛雕像再次出现在南部和北部，可能融合了神牛作为通往后世界的护卫的概念，而奈斯佩卡舒特在底比斯的坟墓就是早期的例子之一。根据最新的分析，他对这种类型的使用似乎是为了重现附近代尔赫里的哈特谢普苏特神庙的浓缩布局。
介绍（英）	Recent work at the tomb of Nespekashuty (see 23.3.468) has shown that this cow head, excavated by the Museum in the 1920s, stood over a statue of a wrapped figure. The cow was rendered as if emerging from the north wall false-door niche in the second room of the tomb and the wrapped figure, representing the tomb owner Nespekashuty, stood against its breast. Cow statues protecting the king were associated with the worship of Hathor in the mountain at Deir el-Bahri in Thebes since the Middle Kingdom. In the Ramesside Period such statues of Hathor protecting the king were included in a few non-royal tombs at Saqqara, and by the late Ramesside Period an example is known that depicts the cow protecting a non-royal person. Hathoric imagery remained popular during the Third Intermediate Period, but decorated tombs only resumed with the Kushite-Saite Period. With that, cow statues appeared again in the south and north, probably incorporating notions of the divine cow as escort to the afterworld, and Nespekashuty's tomb at Thebes was one of the early instances. His employ of the type seems to have been part of recreating a condensed layout of the nearby temple of Hatshepsut of Deir el Bahri, according to the most recent analysis.