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Paestan type terracotta head of a woman

Plastic vase in the shape of a reclining comic actor

Classification
plastic vase; statuette
Culture
Magna Graecian
Dimensions
height: 9.95 cm; length: 10.92 cm
Date
second half of the 2nd century B.C.
Period
Hellenistic Period (Italy, 3rd–1st centuries)
Material
clay
Iconography
actor; comedy mask; servant, slave; drunkenness; chiton; mantle; amphora
Production place
South Italy
Present location
Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities
Provenance
Arndt, Paul (1865–1937)
Inventory
T.343
ID
Hyp-6828
Condition
Intact. Slightly worn, burnt spots all over the surface.
References
Oroszlán 1930, 80, no. E 39; Oroszlán, in ArchÉrt 52 (1939), 94, no. VIII, fig. 88; Szilágyi, J. Gy., in AntTan 25/1 (1978) b, 43, no. 1, fig. 1–2; Webster–Green–Seeberg 1995, 241, no. 3NV 8j; Green, in NumAntCl 24 (1995), 194, 203, no. 10, pl. 4, fig. 11; Szilágyi, J. Gy., CVA Hongrie 2, 69, pl. 28, fig. 4–5, 7; Sguaitamatti–Leone 2015, 30–31, no. B73, pl. 21
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