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品名（中）	斯芬克斯船
品名（英）	Barque Sphinx
入馆年号	2011年，2011.96
策展部门	埃及艺术（Egyptian Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 664 - 公元前 525
创作地区	来自于: 埃及（From: Egypt）
分类
尺寸	高 20.5 × 长 16 × 宽 4.5 厘米 (8 1/16 × 6 5/16 × 1 3/4 英寸); 高 (with tang): 23.3 厘米 (9 3/16 英寸)
介绍（中）	在节日的日子里，在游行的吟游诗人神殿里，人们把神的形象从寺庙里抬出来。大多数情况下，图像本身被隐藏在神龛中，但船头和船尾的雕刻头像向民众表明了神的身份，小型皇家雕像围绕并保护了隐藏在神坛中的神，其他神，包括这里所代表的神，都骑在船头大约公元前1400年的太阳赞美诗将这种沉着警觉的动物称为"sib"，并将其描述为"践踏太阳神的敌人"。在便携式酒吧的船头，它富有表现力和魔力的形状向人群传达了外表和周围力量的超凡脱俗本质，和sib一起，他们组成了一个随行人员，他们继承了太阳神游诗人穿越白天和夜晚天空的航行。当女神们听从吟游诗人的指导时，女巫却可怕地对付任何敢于靠近的敌人狮身人面像是一种标准，也就是说，它出现在一个用来在柱子上升起的平台上。两只眼镜蛇，头都碎了，在平台上与动物一起起伏，增强了同胞的危险力量。狮身人面像本身是人和狮子的混合物，后者的身份通过动物胸部描绘的长条纹鬃毛清楚地表明。但这个非常美丽的例子，有着细长的身体、纤细而高的臀部和向后伸展的腿，可能暗示了豹子和美洲豹的危险优雅，它们与太阳酒吧的航行有关，也让人想起了豺狼的标准这种动物的人头有一种真正空灵的美：眯着微微倾斜的眼睛，眼睑紧闭，脸上露出完美的椭圆形笑脸。这是赛特时期艺术中的一个流派，在随后的几个世纪里，它成为描绘国王和众神超自然完美特征的主导模式。
介绍（英）	Images of gods were carried out of temples on festival days on processional barque-shrines. Most often the image itself was concealed in a shrine, but sculpted heads at the prow and stern identified the god to the populace, small royal statuary surrounded and protected the god hidden in the shrine, and other gods including the one represented here rode at the prow. Solar hymns of about 1400 B.C. identify this divinely poised and alert animal as a "sib," and describe it as "trampling the sun god's enemies." At the prow of the portable barque, its expressive and magical form telegraphed to the crowds the otherworldly nature of the appearance and the forces surrounding it. Alongside the sphinx rode Maat and Hathor, daughters of Re, and with the sib they constituted an entourage inherited from the voyage of the solar barque through the day and night sky. While the goddesses attended to the guidance of the barque, the sib dealt terrifyingly with any enemy that dared to approach. The barque sphinx is a standard, that is to say it appears on a platform meant to be raised on a pole. Two cobras, heads broken, undulate alongside the animal on the platform, reinforcing the dangerous power of the sib. The sphinx itself is a composite of human and lion, the identity of the latter clearly indicated by the long striated mane depicted on the animal's chest. But this very beautiful example with elongated body, extremely slim and high hips and backward thrusting legs probably alludes to the dangerous grace of leopards and panthers, who are associated with the solar barque voyage, and also recalls the jackal standard. The human head of the animal has a truly ethereal beauty: narrowed slightly tilted eyes with full lids in a perfect oval smiling face. This is one strain in the art of the Saite period that in subsequent centuries came to be the dominant mode for depicting the supernaturally perfect features of kings and gods.