《埃及艳后之针》中的螃蟹 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	《埃及艳后之针》中的螃蟹
品名（英）	Crab from "Cleopatra's Needle"
入馆年号	1881年，81.2.2
策展部门	埃及艺术（Egyptian Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 13
创作地区	来自于: 埃及（From: Egypt）
分类
尺寸	高 37 × w. 64.5 × d. 54.6 厘米 (14 9/16 × 25 3/8 × 21 1/2 英寸)
介绍（中）	这两只青铜螃蟹81.2.1和81.2.2）来自一套四只螃蟹，最初在罗马时代用作支撑现在矗立在中央公园的方尖碑破损角落的支架。图特摩斯三世大约在公元前1443年在赫利奥波利斯建立了方尖碑，现在是现代开罗的一部分。它由拉美西斯二世重新刻下，后来被罗马人移到亚历山大港，罗马人在重新竖立它时插入了螃蟹。 1881年，当方尖碑被移到纽约并放置在大都会艺术博物馆后面的中央公园时，罗马螃蟹被新铸造的替代品取代，谁把方尖碑带到了纽约；方尖碑本身就是埃及送给纽约市的礼物 81.2.2的爪子内侧有一个拉丁文铭文，外侧有一个希腊文铭文。两者都表示，罗马总督巴巴鲁斯和建筑师本丢斯在皇帝奥古斯都的第十八年在亚历山大重建了方尖碑，奥古斯都也建造了登杜尔神庙。
介绍（英）	The two bronze crabs 81.2.1 and 81.2.2) are from a set of four originally used in Roman times as supports for the broken corners of the obelisk that now stands in Central Park. Thutmose III erected the obelisk about 1443 B.C. in Heliopolis, now part of modern Cairo. It was re-inscribed by Ramesses II and later moved to Alexandria by the Romans, who inserted the crabs when they re-erected it. The Roman crabs were replaced with newly cast substitutes in 1881 when the obelisk was moved to New York and placed in Central Park behind The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The originals were given to the Museum by Lieutenant Commander Henry H. Gorringe, who brought the obelisk to New York; the obelisk itself was a gift from Egypt to the City of New York. The claw of 81.2.2 has an inscription in Latin on the inside and one in Greek on the outside. Both state that the Roman prefect Barbarus and the architect Pontius re-erected the obelisk in Alexandria during the eighteenth year of an emperor, probably Augustus, who also built the Temple of Dendur.