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A GREEK PAINTED TERRACOTTA NEW COMEDY ACTOR OF A COOK
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A GREEK PAINTED TERRACOTTA NEW COMEDY ACTOR OF A COOK

4TH-3RD CENTURY B.C.

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A GREEK PAINTED TERRACOTTA NEW COMEDY ACTOR OF A COOK
4TH-3RD CENTURY B.C.
Standing with muscular knees bent, carrying a yoke across his shoulders supported by his right hand and left elbow, a bird at one end and a filled animal skin at the other, wearing tunic with chlamys over his left side, remains of pink, red and grey colour on white slip, oval vent, integral base, repaired
7 3/8 in. (18.7 cm.) high
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Lot Essay

Ink inscribed label "1.2.27, Y55, CA55".

Cf. M. Bieber, The History of the Greek and Roman Theater, Princeton, 1971, p. 103, figs. 396-400 for other New Comedy servants wearing tunic and chlamys on a variety of errands. Representative also of the Maison cook type, named after a Megarian Middle Comedy actor and passed on into the New Comedy cf. M. Bieber, Greek and Roman Theatre, op. cit., p. 40 and p. 101.

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