Applique from a brazier (?): comic mask of a slave

Classification

statuette ; comedy mask ; brazier

Culture

Magna Graecian?

Dimensions

height: 13 cm

Date

3rd–2nd century B.C.

Period

Hellenistic Period (Greek, 323–31)

Material

clay

Iconography

comedy mask ; servant, slave

Production place

Italia?

Present location

Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities

Provenance

Arndt, Paul (1865–1937)

Inventory

T.293

ID

Hyp-3261

Condition

Surface worn, broken along the edge, wheel-thrown pottery fragment attached to the back.

References

Oroszlán 1930, 85, no. 120; Oroszlán in JbMBK 9 (1937–39), 225, no. 16, fig. 34; Webster–Green–Seeberg 1995, vol. 2, 162, no. 2XV 3e; vol. 1, pl. 24

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This record is subject to revision due to ongoing research.