Asset number
146294001
Description
Terracotta figure of an actor of New Comedy, probably a soldier or traveller; his bearded face is carved in great detail to the pupils of the eyes; he is wearing a short tunic belted below his paunch, his body is framed by a chlamys secured with a large circular fibula on his chest, and he is wearing a kausia on his head. His arms and lower legs are missing. Pale brown clay. Terracotta figure of an actor, perhaps the Procurer of New Comedy, wearing chiton with himation on top muffling his left arm and passing under his right shoulder, mask is of an old man (balding, heavily wrinkled, squinting eyes, and long square-cut beard), wearing thick bound wreath over one of fruit and ivy leaves with streamers hanging to his shoulders, wearing sandals. Orange-brown clay (with a little mica), red on mask, lower wreath, and streamers. Terracotta figure of a comic (?) actor, his right arm outstretched, his left hand on his hip, himation draped over his left shoulder and around his lower body, head over-large and extremely ugly, bald, lined forehead, thick lips, protruding ears, big hooked nose. Brown to pale brown clay (with a little mica), white coatin, red on lips.
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