Apkallu人物：鸟头、有翅膀的人提着水桶 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	Apkallu人物：鸟头、有翅膀的人提着水桶
品名（英）	Apkallu figure: bird-headed, winged figure carrying a bucket
入馆年号	1954年，54.117.26
策展部门	古代近东艺术（Ancient Near Eastern Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 900 - 公元前 700
创作地区
分类
尺寸	5 9/16 × 3 1/4 × 1 5/16 英寸 (14.2 × 8.3 × 3.3 厘米)
介绍（中）	这个小的烤泥人是一个正面人物，有四个大翅膀和一个穿着长袍的人体。这张脸是通过捏粘土形成一个尖头突起而形成的，类似于鸟喙。左臂沿着身体伸展，拿着一个水桶，右臂弯曲在肘部，右拳紧握在胸前。尽管这尊雕像是用粘土而不是石头制作的，但它与西北宫墙上浮雕的不朽的有翼鹰头雕像非常相似，博物馆的亚述浮雕画廊中也有这尊雕像（32.143.7），至少从乌尔三世时期（约公元前2100-2000年）起，美索不达米亚就开始采用一种常见的制造牌匾和雕像的方法。一千年后，在新亚述时期，魔法从业者通过一种仪式，将雕像放在房间的地板下，发展出了保护建筑内部空间的技术。这尊雕像被发现埋在亚述皇家城市尼姆鲁德一座宫殿建筑的一个房间里的地板下，这表明它是为了这个功能。
介绍（英）	This small baked clay figurine takes the form of a frontal figure with four large wings and a human body, clothed in a long garment. The face was formed by pinching the clay to create a pointed protrusion, resembling a bird’s beak. The left arm is extended along the body and holds a bucket, while the right is bent at the elbow and the right fist clasped to the chest. Although created in clay rather than stone, the figure closely resembles the monumental winged eagle-headed figures carved in relief on the walls of the Northwest Palace, on view in the Assyrian relief gallery at the museum (32.143.7). The figurine was made by pressing clay into a mold, a common method of manufacturing plaques and figurines in Mesopotamia since at least the Ur III period (ca. 2100-2000 B.C.). A thousand years later, during the Neo-Assyrian period, practitioners of magic had developed techniques for protecting interior spaces of buildings by means of a ritual that involved depositing an assemblage of figurines beneath the room’s floor. This figure was found buried under the floor in a room in a palace building at the Assyrian royal city of Nimrud, suggesting that it was intended for this function.