Lot 121
121
A GREEK TERRACOTTA FIGURE OF A COMIC ACTOR REPRESENTING A SLAVE, seated with legs crossed, his right arm folded and his chin resting on his left hand, wearing short tunic, sandals, and a comic mask with knitted eyebrows, snub nose and grimacing mouth, mounted, mid 4th Century B.C.

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A GREEK TERRACOTTA FIGURE OF A COMIC ACTOR REPRESENTING A SLAVE, seated with legs crossed, his right arm folded and his chin resting on his left hand, wearing short tunic, sandals, and a comic mask with knitted eyebrows, snub nose and grimacing mouth, mounted, mid 4th Century B.C.
4¼in. (11cm.) high

Lot Essay

This type represents a slave who has run away and has found sanctuary. He is commonly shown sitting on an altar, listening to requests to leave the altar, cf. T. B. L. Webster, Monuments illustrating Old and New Comedy, Institute of Classical Studies Bulletin Supp., 39, London, 1978, p. 124, pl. v and R. A. Higgins, Catalogue of the Terracottas in the Department of GreeK and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, I, London, 1969, p. 299, pl. 98, no. 743

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