Comic actor: old nurse

Classification

statuette

Culture

Greek (culture)

Dimensions

height: 9 cm

Date

400–375 B.C.

Period

Classical Period (480–323)

Material

clay

Iconography

actor ; comedy mask ; nurse ; aged woman ; chiton ; mantle ; child ; cap ; veil

Present location

Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities

Provenance

Arndt, Paul (1865–1937)

Inventory

T.310

ID

Hyp-6779

Condition

Intact.

References

Oroszlán 1930, 84, no. E 110; Oroszlán in JbMBK 9 (1937–39), 220, no. 3, fig. 3; Green, in BICS 27 (1980), 123, pl. 5 a

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