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

Classification

comedy mask ; statuette ; brazier

Culture

Greek?; Roman?

Dimensions

height: 9.5 cm

Date

between 150–50 B.C.

Period

Hellenistic Period (Greek, 323–31)?; Roman Imperial Period?

Material

clay

Iconography

comedy mask ; servant, slave

Present location

Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities

Provenance

Arndt, Paul (1865–1937)

Inventory

T.294

ID

Hyp-771

Condition

Edges and lower part damaged.

References

Oroszlán 1930, 86, no. 125; Oroszlán in JbMBK 9 (1937–39), 224, no. 14, fig. 9; Webster–Green–Seeberg 1995, vol. 2, 266, no. 3XV 12b; Szilágyi, J. Gy., HWA 2006 Winter; Szilágyi J. Gy., in Ókor 6/1–2 (2007), 91–92, fig.

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