Comic actor: slave (cook?) carrying a sack

Classification

statuette

Culture

Greek (culture)

Dimensions

height: 11.4 cm

Date

between 250–150 B.C.

Period

Hellenistic Period (Greek, 323–31)

Material

clay

Iconography

actor ; comedy mask ; servant, slave ; bag

Present location

Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities

Provenance

Arndt, Paul (1865–1937)

Inventory

T.337

ID

Hyp-3255

Condition

Mended from several pieces, some fragments missing from the back and the base.

References

Oroszlán 1930; Oroszlán, in ArchÉrt 52 (1939), 89, fig. 85; Webster–Green–Seeberg 1995; Szilágyi, J. Gy., Antik Gyűjtemény; Szilágyi, J. Gy., Ancient Art

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