Comic character: “the cook” with dog

Classification

statuette ; sculpture / statue

Culture

Magna Graecian

Dimensions

height: 25 cm

Date

250–150 B.C.

Period

Hellenistic Period (Greek, 323–31)

Material

clay

Iconography

actor ; comedy mask ; servant, slave ; chiton ; mantle ; dog

Findspot

South Italy

Present location

Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities

Provenance

Arndt, Paul (1865–1937)

Inventory

T.339

ID

Hyp-6814

Condition

Broken, mended.

References

Oroszlán 1930, 86, no. E 126; Oroszlán, in ArchÉrt 52 (1939), 96, no. X, fig. 90; Webster–Green–Seeberg 1995, vol. 2, 144, no. 2RT 14a, pl. 21

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