跳舞的侏儒 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	跳舞的侏儒
品名（英）	Dancing dwarf
入馆年号	1926年，26.7.1403
策展部门	埃及艺术（Egyptian Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 332 - 公元前 150
创作地区	来自于: 埃及（From: Egypt）
分类
尺寸	高 10 厘米 (3 15/16 英寸); 宽 4.9 厘米 (1 15/16 英寸); 深 4.2 厘米 (1 5/8 英寸)
介绍（中）	这位身材魁梧、手舞足蹈的大理石侏儒几乎可以肯定来自亚历山大港。在托勒密艺术的许多方面，侏儒代表了不同趋势的融合尽管在这种情况下，头顶、手臂和腿都不见了，但舞者和侏儒舞者的青铜雕像通常都有响板，这种类型的起源可能与托勒密时期一些纸莎草书中提到的为宗教或私人场合雇佣的演奏响板的舞者有关。在希腊，这种舞者长期以来一直与酒神或赛贝尔等狂喜的狂欢崇拜联系在一起，所以有时可能也会涉及到这种崇拜。然而，雇用这些人当然是为了私人场合和宴会。那么，这个数字可能让人想起了一个特定的场合，或者是对节日的更普遍的回忆这个矮人没有漫画，这符合埃及悠久的传统，在这个传统中，矮人融入了社会，并有着普遍的积极联想，此时他们大多以神的身份出现——贝斯或帕泰科斯。这个人物的裸体可能更符合希腊传统，而对侏儒肌肉组织和体型的高度发达渲染是希腊化的趋势：在一个相互联系的世界里，人们对人类类型的阵列甚至体型的研究都很感兴趣。
介绍（英）	The marble dancing dwarf with his fine features is almost certainly from Alexandria. As in so many aspects of Ptolemaic art, the dwarf represents the convergence of different trends. Although in this instance the top of the head, arms and legs are missing, bronze statuettes of dancers and dwarf-dancers often hold castanets, and the origin of the type should probably be associated with the castanet-playing dancers hired for religious or private occasions who are noted in some Ptolemaic papyri. In Greece such dancers had long been associated with ecstatic orgiastic cults like those of Dionysus or Cybele, so it could be that such cults are sometimes involved. However, the employment of such individuals certainly was adopted for private occasions and banquets. The figure, then, might have recalled a particular occasion, or been a more general evocation of festivity. This dwarf is rendered without caricature, which suits the long Egyptian tradition in which dwarves were integrated in society and had in general positive associations, and by this time appeared mostly as gods - Bes or Pataikos. The nakedness of the figure is perhaps more suited to Greek tradition, while the highly developed rendering of the dwarf's musculature and body form is a Hellenistic tendency: in a world greatly interconnected, there was strong interest in the array of human types and even study of body types.