河马的头 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	河马的头
品名（英）	Head of a Hippopotamus
入馆年号	1997年，1997.375
策展部门	埃及艺术（Egyptian Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 1390 - 公元前 1352
创作地区	来自于: 埃及（From: Egypt）
分类
尺寸	高 14 厘米 (5 1/2 in); 宽 12.2 厘米 (4 13/16 in); 深 from back to jaw 15.2 厘米 (6 in)
介绍（中）	这个栩栩如生的动物头像曾经是一尊长约三英尺的河马雕像的一部分。与这一时期的其他雕塑的比较表明，它创作于阿蒙霍特普三世统治时期。国王献给萨赫米特女神的坐像是众所周知的；它们的猫头上有凹陷的肌肉脸颊和与河马相似的多节面部骨骼。这个头像可能来自现代卢克索对面尼罗河西岸的阿蒙霍特普太平间。这座寺庙在古代大多被拆除，但遗址上有两尊被称为梅农巨人的巨大国王雕像考古学家在遗址上发现了另一尊更大的河马雕像，也是埃及雪花石膏雕像。再加上数百件其他雕塑，其中许多雕塑以动物的形式代表神，河马将在仪式中为国王争取神的地位。在这只动物的下颚下面有一个古老的钻孔。它可能是为金属支撑（头部很重）或在狩猎河马的仪式中插入鱼叉的钩子而制作的。红色油漆的痕迹被保存在口腔两侧的犁沟中。
介绍（英）	This extraordinarily lifelike animal head was once part of a hippopotamus statue about three feet in length. Comparisons with other sculptures from the period indicate that it was created during the reign of Amenhotep III. The seated statues that the king dedicated to the goddess Sakhmet are well known; their feline heads display hollow sinewed cheeks and knobby facial bones similar to those on the hippo. This head may have come from Amenhotep's mortuary temple on the west bank of the Nile opposite modern Luxor. This temple was mostly dismantled in ancient times, but the site is marked by two colossal statues of the king known as the colossi of Memnon. Excavators have found another, even larger, hippo statue, also of Egyptian alabaster, at the site. Together with hundreds of other sculptures—many of them representing deities in animal form—the hippos would have served in rituals procuring godlike status for the king. On the underside of the animal's jaw is an ancient drill hole. It may have been made for a metal support (the head is heavy) or for the insertion of the hook of a harpoon during a ritual hippopotamus hunt. Traces of red paint are preserved in furrows at the sides of the mouth.