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A GREEK TERRACOTTA FIGURE OF A MIDDLE COMEDY ACTOR
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A GREEK TERRACOTTA FIGURE OF A MIDDLE COMEDY ACTOR

FIRST HALF OF 4TH CENTURY B.C.

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A GREEK TERRACOTTA FIGURE OF A MIDDLE COMEDY ACTOR
FIRST HALF OF 4TH CENTURY B.C.
His head bent forward in laughter, wearing a mantle loosely draped around him showing his pot-bellied stomach, a fillet around his head, holding phallus in his right hand, lower legs missing, mounted, 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm.) high; a Hellenistic terracotta figure of a drunken Seilenos, the balding and bearded nude satyr with hirsute chest and groin, lurching to the right, looking down at an object in his right hand (now missing), left arm and lower legs missing, mounted, 2nd-1st Century B.C., 5 in. (12.7 cm.) high; and a Hellenistic terracotta New Comedy actor's mask, the balding head with tuft of hair above the furrowed brow and at either side around the ears, the pierced eyes with heavy eyebrows, open mouth showing teeth above, a tuft of hair at either side of the chin, traces of red and black paint on white slip, two suspension holes above, repaired, 3rd-2nd Century B.C., 3½ in. (9 cm.) high (3)
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Item one: ink inscribed label "1.2.27 HS5 R55".
Item two: ink inscribed label "26/230/1/GAS(6)".

Item one: cf. M. Bieber, The History of Greek and Roman Theater, Princeton, 1971, p. 47, fig. 195 for similar.
Item three: cf. M. Bieber, Greek and Roman Theater, op. cit, p. 101, fig. 381 for a New Comedy mask of the foreign cook Tettix as described by Pollux. He is represented with the same balding head with tufts of hair at chin and forehead.