安全阀面板 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	安全阀面板
品名（英）	Relief panel
入馆年号	1932年，32.143.9
策展部门	古代近东艺术（Ancient Near Eastern Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 883 - 公元前 859
创作地区
分类
尺寸	52 1/4 x 27 x 3 1/2 英寸 (132.7 x 68.6 x 8.9 厘米)
介绍（中）	这个面板代表了一个超自然的保护人物，类似于在尼姆鲁德西北宫（古代卡尔胡）看到的人物，但来自同一地点的另一个重要建筑，尼努尔塔神庙。与宫殿一样，尼努尔塔神庙是由阿舒尔纳西尔帕尔二世（公元前883年至859年在位）建造的，很可能许多相同的人员参与了这两座建筑的救济计划尼努尔塔是美索不达米亚万神殿中的一位重要神。他最初是一位农业神，但对亚述国王来说，正是他与战争和胜利的联系赋予了他特殊的意义。尼努尔塔神庙的一幅浮雕描绘了上帝最著名的神话作品，从安祖鸟身上回收了"命运之碑"，上面写着人类的未来，安祖鸟是一种经常以狮头鹰的形象出现在艺术中的恶魔图中的人物长着翅膀，长着人头，左手拿着一株植物的一部分，这株植物的三根树枝以玫瑰花结结尾。这种植物的含义是未知的，但它可能是高度程式化的，可能不能代表任何真正的植物。玫瑰经常出现在亚述艺术中，与神有着强烈的联系，尤其是与女神伊什塔尔的联系。
介绍（英）	This panel represents a supernatural protective figure similar to those seen in the Northwest Palace at Nimrud (ancient Kalhu) but comes from another important structure at the same site, the Ninurta Temple. Like the palace, the Ninurta Temple was built by Ashurnasirpal II (r. 883–859 B.C.), and it is very likely that many of the same personnel were involved in producing the relief programs for the two buildings. Ninurta was an important god in the Mesopotamian pantheon. In origin he was an agricultural deity, but for the Assyrian kings it was his association with war and victory that gave him particular significance. One relief from the Ninurta Temple depicts the god’s most famous mythological exploit—recovering the "Tablet of Destinies," on which was written the future of humanity, from the Anzu bird, a demon who often appears in art as a lion-headed eagle. The figure depicted here is winged and human-headed, and holds in his left hand part of a plant whose three branches end in rosettes. The meaning of this plant is unknown, but it is probably highly stylized and may not represent any real plant. Rosettes occur frequently in Assyrian art and have strong divine associations, particularly with the goddess Ishtar.