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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | KT 22002 | | Title: | | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: COMIC ACTOR | | Category: | | Minor Finds | | Category Code: | | KT | | Object Number: | | 22 | | Object Suffix: | | 002 | | Description: | | Figurine of draped, male, comic actor. Figure holds bent arms close to body, reaching with both hands towards collar under beard. Head with pilos (H. 0.031) and broad, long, pointed beard. Distended belly and concave back. Wears chlamys clasped under chin over short, dotted chiton with several incisions on lower right side. Incision on right wrist to indicate tights(?). Looped phallus. Hollow. Mouldmade with evidence of tooling (incised details and edges). Similar to KH-47 (mould), Canberra 75.19. Mask L (MMC 3rd ed.). | | Material: | | Fine reddish yellow clay with very few rare fine platy rounded brown and black inclusions. | | Munsell Color: | | 7.5YR 8/6 (reddish yellow) | | Condition: | | Missing parts. Upper body intact except chipped pilos on left side, legs missing. Very worn, surface chipping, accretion. | | Manufacture: | | F08 M CO | | Period: | | 4th c. B.C. | | Chronology: | | based on style | | Provenance: | | Corinth | | Findspot Description: | | Potters' Quarter. | | Bibliography: | | Stillwell 1952, Corinth 15.2, cat. 11, p. 144; JHS 78, p. 174; Hesperia 29.3, p. 267-8; MMC 2nd ed., p. 34, cat. AT 50b; MMC 3rd ed., p. 78, cat. AT 45c; Greek Theatre in the Fourth Century BC, p. 357-8 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece |
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