家具支架：女性狮身人面像，海瑟式卷发 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	家具支架：女性狮身人面像，海瑟式卷发
品名（英）	Furniture support: female sphinx with Hathor-style curls
入馆年号	1932年，32.161.47
策展部门	古代近东艺术（Ancient Near Eastern Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 1800 - 公元前 1700
创作地区
分类
尺寸	4 15/16 × 1 7/16 × 2 1/4 英寸 (12.5 × 3.7 × 5.7 厘米)
介绍（中）	这件作品是一组四条家具腿之一，可能是在安纳托利亚中部Acemhöyük的一座宫殿遗址上发现的，雕刻成没有翅膀的紧凑坐姿狮身人面像的形状。他们有一双大眼睛，瞳孔镶嵌，其中只有一个完好无损。一些例子的头发和头饰以及眼睛上仍然存在金箔的痕迹。这件作品的红色染色表明表面存在氧化铁，尽管不知道这是故意的装饰处理，还是与埋藏碎片的土壤接触的结果。每个狮身人面像都戴着假发或发型，其中浓密的头发以大卷发结束，放在突出的耳朵后面，勾勒出脸部，类似于埃及女神哈索尔的形象。在埃及，具有哈索尔属性的狮身人面像与皇室女性有关。目前尚不清楚这些图像在安纳托利亚意味着什么，但它们在宫殿内的位置表明它们可能在那里具有相同的功能。狮身人面像可能属于一小块家具，不会有太大的重量。榫眼被钻入头部顶部，在这些榫眼上钻出额外的孔，这些孔可以固定销钉以固定榫头。在每个狮身人面像头部的一侧，卷发要么被省略，要么只是粗略雕刻，这表明这一侧可能不可见。这使得学者们能够重建他们的原始排列，其中这件作品位于右后方。
介绍（英）	This piece is one of a set of four furniture legs, probably found at the site of a palace at Acemhöyük in central Anatolia, carved in the shape of compact seated sphinxes without wings. They have large eyes with inlaid pupils, only one of which survives intact. Traces of gold foil remain on the hair and headdresses as well as eyes of some examples. The reddish staining of this piece indicates that iron oxides are present on the surface, although it is not known whether this was a deliberate decorative treatment, or a result of contact with the soil in which the pieces were buried. Each sphinx wears a wig or hairstyle in which heavy locks of hair ending in large curls, held behind protruding ears, frame the face, resembling images of the Egyptian goddess Hathor. In Egypt, sphinxes with the attributes of Hathor were associated with royal women. It is not known what these images meant in Anatolia, but their location within a palace suggests that they could have had the same function there. The sphinxes probably belonged to a small piece of furniture that would not have held much weight. Mortises were drilled into the tops of the heads, with additional drilled holes across these mortises that would have held pins to secure tenons. On one side of the head of each sphinx the curls are either omitted or only roughly carved, suggesting this side may not have been visible. This has allowed scholars to reconstruct their original arrangement, in which this piece is positioned at the rear right side.