| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 2503 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: COMIC ACTOR | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 2503 | |
| Description: | Figurine of draped, male, comic actor with bent right arm held close against body, figure grasps drapery in right hand near right breast, pulling it across chest. Head (H. 0.023) bald with some lank hair around sides and back. Raised brows, small nose, wide, open mouth with slight grin. Wide, short, rounded beard. Himation? Hollow. Mouldmade with some tooling. Pollux' Mask 25 (MNC 3rd. Ed.). | |
| Decoration: | White slip. | |
| Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay with rare medium spherical sub-rounded brown inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | 5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving head, right arm and right side of torso. Mising left arm, left side of torso, legs, and all of back except head. Traces of white slip all over. Worn. Some black accretion in crevices. | |
| Manufacture: | F08 M MM | |
| Period: | 1 st c. A.C. | |
| Chronology: | according to Corinth 12 | |
| Area: | Odeion | |
| Context: | NB107 P106 | |
| Bibliography: | Davidson 1952, Corinth 12, cat. 428; MNC 3rd ed., p. 117, cat. 2CT 3. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Odeion Image: bw 3775 |
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