In the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, there is a special blue-colored pottery in the collection, and almost no one can guess its use. Finally, an expert speculated that the blue-colored pottery was likely to be a musical instrument. What's going on here? If you want to know, let Xiaobian reveal the secret for you:
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, located in the United States, is the largest art museum in the United States and the most famous art museum in the world, located on 82nd Street on Fifth Avenue in New York, USA. The Metropolitan Museum of Art covers an area of about 130,000 square meters.
As a world museum, the collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the United States almost reviews the development of human civilization history, and is called the world's five major museums together with the Forbidden City in Beijing, the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris, France, and the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1871 when the museum was approved for a permanent site on the east side of Central Park after consultation with the City of New York, and its architectural design was also designed by the famous designer Calvert Walkers. After that, the museum began to collect important cultural relics shipped from all over the world, gathering hundreds of heads to form the world's largest museum with more than 3 million cultural relics.
In the list of artifacts on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, there is one artifact that is particularly special, which is a special blue-colored pottery. The shape of the blue color pottery is very special, its whole is divided into three parts, the upper part is a "door" shaped structure, it is thick and strong but strange shape, modern people can not speculate on it at all. In the middle of the faience pottery, there is a female face with the distinctive characteristics of ancient Egypt, she is good-looking and decorated, and a pair of beautiful eyes are staring ahead, and her eyes are full of awe. The lower part is relatively simple, similar in shape to a square pillar with some ancient Egyptian characters inscribed on the pillar, but related writing experts also say that they have not yet been able to decipher the meaning of the text.
At this time, a question arises, what is the use of such a peculiar blue color pottery? After all, productivity was limited in ancient times, and craftsmen could not be bored enough to spend a lot of energy making an object. In order to be able to uncover the secrets, archaeologists began to study the use of blue-colored pottery. Some experts have proposed that it is likely to be the head ornament of the famous ancient Egyptian goddess Hasol. Hasol was one of the important objects of worship of the ancient Egyptians, she was the famous god of love, the god of harvest, the god of disaster, able to bless the subjects to enjoy the most beautiful love, while allowing the crops to harvest. Legend has it that in the land of ancient Egypt, a bloodthirsty devil slaughtered at will on the earth, killing women and children and drinking their blood. In order to be able to subdue the devil, Hasol sprinkled pomegranate wine to lure the devil to eat it, and the devil mistakenly thought that the pomegranate wine was blood, so he drank it so drunk that he fell into a deep sleep and could no longer harm one party.
Archaeologists compared the shapes of myths with blue pottery and found that according to the records of myths and legends, the goddess Hasol seemed to be very simple and did not like all kinds of costumes, so the ancient Egyptians had no reason to dress up for the goddess. It wasn't until an old expert on ancient Egyptian music arrived that the secrets were uncovered. Old experts believe that blue pottery is actually a special musical instrument in ancient Egypt, called a fork bell.
The fork bell is one of the ancient Egyptian instruments, and its working principle is also very simple, that is, there is a horizontal insert in the upper part of it, which can make a burst of sound in the case of external forces, the sound is hoarse but rhythmic, and it is a bell sound that pays tribute to the goddess on behalf of the ancient Egyptians. The old expert saw that everyone was suspicious, and then ordered his assistant to return to his home to take out the fork bell from his collection, and compared it with the blue pottery on the spot. Sure enough, apart from the slight difference in styling, the other settings are almost identical, which convinces everyone.
Many of the ancient acts of production, life, sacrifice, etc., have not left written records, and many cultural relics have lost their original meaning of function. The fork bell is an important detail of the Egyptian sacrifice and is of great help to us in our study of Egyptian history.
References: The Mystery of Ancient Egypt, by Huang Wei, published by Jilin Publishing House
Wen xiucai, editor-in-chief of Wenlan Hairun Studio, written by: Special history writer: Changshan Zhao Zi worm