Comic actor: old man

Classification

statuette ; sculpture / statue

Culture

Greek?

Dimensions

height: 14 cm

Date

375–350 B.C.

Period

Classical Period (480–323)

Material

clay

Iconography

actor ; comedy mask ; aged man ; mantle ; chiton ; pilos / pileus ; phallus

Production place

Attica?

Present location

Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities

Provenance

Arndt, Paul (1865–1937)

Inventory

T.335

ID

Hyp-3256

Condition

Broken across thighs, mended. One corner of the base restored.

References

Oroszlán 1930, no. E 145; Oroszlán, in ArchÉrt 52 (1939), 88, no. 1, fig. 81; Green, in BICS 27 (1980), 124, pl. 7 a; Csornay 1987, fig. 14; Szilágyi, J. Gy., Antik Gyűjtemény, 58; Szilágyi, J. Gy., Ancient Art, 65–66