Miniature altar with the mask of a slave

Classification

statuette ; altar ; relief

Dimensions

height: 11.1 cm; length of shorter side: 8.7 cm

Date

3rd century B.C.

Period

Hellenistic Period (Italy, 3rd–1st centuries)

Material

clay

Iconography

comedy mask ; servant, slave ; floral wreath ; ribbon

Findspot

Latium?

Present location

Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities

Provenance

Arndt, Paul (1865–1937)

Inventory

T.563

ID

Hyp-6827

Condition

Left side of altar with some of wreath missing, rim heavily chipped.

References

Oroszlán 1930, 84, no. E 106; Oroszlán in JbMBK 9 (1937–39), 230, no. 26, fig. 27; Webster–Green–Seeberg 1995, 144, no. 2RT 16b

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