复合资本形状的化妆盒 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	复合资本形状的化妆盒
品名（英）	Cosmetic box in the shape of a composite capital
入馆年号	1999年，1999.213a, b
策展部门	埃及艺术（Egyptian Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 664
创作地区	来自于: 埃及（From: Egypt）
分类
尺寸	高 8.5 厘米 (3 3/8 in); w. 9 厘米 (3 9/16 in)
介绍（中）	这个雕刻精美的盒子的盖子是用玻璃般的蓝绿色装饰的，代表了一个柱头，这种柱头在现存托勒密时期的寺庙中的建筑实例中很有名。这件作品的确切日期尚未确定，因为这种盒子极为罕见。这种类型的起源可以追溯到新王国晚期（约公元前1390年至1070年）的化妆匙和化妆盒，但类似首都的最早代表是在公元前4世纪的一座坟墓中发现的这些容器可能属于埃及贵族，但研究表明，它们更有可能用于寺庙仪式，而装饰强化了这一功能。尽管盒子通常是用缠绕在两个旋钮之间的绳子关上的，但这个盒子上的附件并不是为了以这种方式使用而设计的，它强调了仪式的功能盖子和插座上的孔表明，一个销钉曾经允许盖子向任何一个方向转动。几个隔间内部的污渍表明它们最初含有药膏。
介绍（英）	The lid of this delicately carved box created in glassy blue-green faience represents a column capital of a type well known from architectural examples in extant Ptolemaic Period temples. The precise date of the piece is undetermined because such boxes are extremely rare. The origin of the type can be traced back to cosmetic spoons and boxes of the late New Kingdom (ca. 1390–1070 B.C.), but the earliest representations of a similar capital is found in a fourth century B.C. tomb. Such containers may have belonged to members of Egypt's aristocracy, but research suggests that they were more likely made for use in temple rituals, a function the decoration reinforces. Although boxes generally were held shut with a string wound between two knobs, the attachment on this one was not designed to be used in this manner, emphasizing a ritual function. The hole in the lid and the socket indicate that a peg once allowed the lid to pivot in either direction. Stains on the inside of several compartments establish that they originally contained ointment.