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There's something disturbingly familiar about this kind of image-it looks to us indeed a bit like a contemporary political cartoon, and so we showed it to the political cartoonist, Steve Bell, to ask him what he made of it:
類似這樣的場面熟悉得令人不安，看上去幾乎有點(diǎn)像是現(xiàn)代的政治卡通。于是，我們把這標(biāo)簽?zāi)媒o政治漫畫家史蒂夫?貝爾看，問問他的想法：
"Well, looking at this tiny object now, it is a genuinely archetypal image of power-it's the exercise of power, it's somebody bossing it over somebody else. And this image of having a larger character dominating a smaller character is obviously not to do with physical size, it's to do with symbolic size, symbolic weight, and that even carries on into the world of naturalistic political cartoons to this very day. I did it myself only yesterday. You find that characters you focus on often you draw bigger, just because that's where the meaning is. Here we are-one of the earliest political images of all time-it is quite something. There're no laughs there-but that comes later!"
“這小小的物品看起來，真的是一種權(quán)力的真正原型形象，代表權(quán)力的行使，一個(gè)人對(duì)別人的鎮(zhèn)壓。你看，這標(biāo)簽上是一個(gè)身形大得多的人在威嚇一個(gè)身形較小的人，顯然這并不是一種真實(shí)肉體上的體型差異，而是象征性的。這一點(diǎn)甚至當(dāng)今政治漫畫界仍然很自然運(yùn)用著。我自己昨天才畫過這種類型的。我們看到的是人類歷史上最早的政治圖像之一。這畫面挺嚴(yán)肅的，沒有什么笑點(diǎn)，不過那些都是后話了！”
The label-maker's job 'was' deadly serious-to keep his leader looking invincible and semi-divine, and to show that Den was the only man who could guarantee what Egyptians, like everybody else, wanted from their rulers-law and order. Within the pharaoh's realm, everybody was expected to conform and to take on a clear Egyptian identity. The message of our sandal label is that the price of opposition was high and painful. And the message is carried not only in images but by writing-there are some early hieroglyphs scratched into the ivory.
標(biāo)簽制造的工作可是有“致命”的重要性，得確保把他的統(tǒng)治者描繪成無往不勝的半神，也得表現(xiàn)出國王丹是唯一能為他的國家?guī)矸膳c秩序的人—古埃及人，像任何其他人一樣，都希望他們的統(tǒng)潔者能做到這點(diǎn)。在法老的皇權(quán)下，人人都得遵從并體現(xiàn)出一種明確的埃及人身份特征。我們這枚涼鞋標(biāo)簽上傳達(dá)出的信息是：強(qiáng)權(quán)鎮(zhèn)壓的代價(jià)是昂貴而痛苦的。這信息不僅僅通過畫面表達(dá)出來，而且刻在牙牌上邊的早期象形文字也說很清楚。
