狮头咆哮的装饰品，可能是剑或匕首柄的末端 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	狮头咆哮的装饰品，可能是剑或匕首柄的末端
品名（英）	Ornament with heads of roaring lions, possibly the terminal of a sword or dagger hilt
入馆年号	1954年，54.117.20
策展部门	古代近东艺术（Ancient Near Eastern Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 800 - 公元前 700
创作地区
分类
尺寸	3 11/16 × 1 13/16 × 1 9/16 英寸 (9.4 × 4.6 × 4 厘米)
介绍（中）	这种独特的石灰石物体构成了手柄或剑柄的一部分。从头到尾的圆形穿孔可能握住剑或匕首的刀片，或其他物体，例如亚述艺术中有时看到的军事标准。许多亚述雕塑描绘了剑，其剑柄与这个物体惊人地相似，有一个圆形的鞍子和咆哮的狮子头（这里是两个半头：一只狮子的上颚形成另一只狮子的下颚）刀片本来可以插入。在这种情况下，头部以经典的亚述风格雕刻而成。手柄最初在其他材料中具有相当大的装饰，现在大部分丢失了。幸存的一小部分装饰元素表明，由脊分隔的中间部分曾经填充着白色、红色和绿色的马赛克镶嵌物，以及形成扭索纹图案的金箔。狮子头仍然保留着眼睛上方的青金石"疣"，青金石在一只眼睛的边缘存活。狮子的眼睛本身肯定会镶嵌出来。
介绍（英）	This unique limestone object formed part of a handle or hilt. The circular piercing that runs from end to end might have held the blade of a sword or dagger, or another object such as the military standards sometimes seen in Assyrian art. Many Assyrian sculptures depict swords whose hilts bear a striking resemblance to this object, with a round pommel and roaring lion heads (here two half-heads: the upper jaw of one lion forms the lower jaw of the other) where the blade would have been inserted. In this case the heads are well carved in a classic Assyrian style. The handle originally featured considerable decoration in other materials, now largely lost. A small surviving element of decoration shows that the middle sections, separated by ridges, were once filled with mosaic tesserae in white, red, and green, together with gold foil, that formed guilloche patterns. The lion heads still retain lapis lazuli ‘warts’ above the eyes, and lapis lazuli survives at the rim of one eye. The lions’ eyes themselves would certainly have been inlaid.