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品名（中）	祭坛戒指
品名（英）	Altar Ring
入馆年号	1976年，1976.239
策展部门	迈克尔·洛克菲勒之翼（The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1500 - 公元 1600
创作地区	尼日利亚（Nigeria）
分类	金属雕塑（Metal-Sculpture）
尺寸	高 2 1/2 × 直径 7 英寸 (6.4 × 17.8 厘米)
介绍（中）	尼日利亚南部地区，特别是尼日尔河下游地区，都有各种风格和类型的青铜作品十九世纪末在贝宁发现的许多"下尼日尔青铜器"长期以来被认为是当地的，现在被认为来自多个地点和时间段；其中一些来自伊博-伊加拉地区，但大多数是在受约鲁巴和贝宁艺术影响的中心制作的。对其中一些雕塑中粘土芯的科学年代测定表明，其中一些早在14世纪就制作完成了。因此，有些肯定与伊菲的自然主义青铜器是同时代的，可能是伊菲风格的省级反映在伊杰布的约鲁巴中心，黄铜铸造师借鉴了在贝宁和奥沃发现的图案，并将其翻译成明显的伊杰布动物、鸟类和鱼类的组合形态。贝宁、奥沃和其他约鲁巴铸造传统之间历史上存在的复杂的区域相互关系被铸造金属祭坛环的共同传统所掩盖。一组大约二十个例子的图像与牺牲有关。
介绍（英）	Works in metal in a wealth of bronzes in a variety of styles and types are found throughout the southern half of Nigeria, especially along the lower part of the Niger River. The numerous "Lower Niger bronzes" discovered in Benin at the end of the nineteenth century that were long considered to be of local origin are now thought to come from a number of locations and time periods; some are from the Igbo-Igala area, but most were made in centers influenced by Yoruba and Benin art. Scientific dating of the clay cores in several of these sculptures revealed that a few were made as early as the fourteenth century. Some must, therefore, be contemporary with the naturalistic bronzes of Ife and may be provincial reflections of Ife style. In the Yoruba center of Ijebu, brass casters drew upon motifs found in Benin and Owo which they translated into distinctly Ijebu configurations of composite animal, bird, and fish forms. The complex regional interrelationships that have historically existed between Benin, Owo, and other Yoruba casting traditions are underscroed by a shared tradition of cast-metal altar rings. The iconography of a group of about twenty examples is related to sacrifice.