| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 4234 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: COMIC ACTOR | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 4234 | |
| Description: | Figurine of draped, male, comic actor. Figure holds bent arms over belly with right hand reaching over and clasping left wrist. Head (H. 0.021) with good roughly striated hair running fairly straight across forehead, framing face and reaching shoulders. Prominent, furrowed, raised brows. Short, wide nose, wide, oval-shaped mouth. Wide, short, rounded beard. Himation, incisions on wrists to indicate tights. Hollow. Mouldmade with some tooled details. Probably Pollux' Mask 22 or 27. | |
| Decoration: | White slip. Red hair and beard. | |
| Material: | Fine reddish yellow and yellow clay with rare medium spherical angular brown and black inclusions and frequent fine sparkling inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | 5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow) and 10YR 7/6 (yellow) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Head, arms, and upper torso preserved; missing lower torso, legs, feet. Large chip out in back of head. Traces of white slip in mouth and deep red paint on hair and beard. Worn. | |
| Manufacture: | F08 M MM | |
| Period: | 1 st c. A.C. | |
| Chronology: | according to Corinth 12 | |
| Area: | Agora Southeast | |
| Context: | NB147 P36 | |
| Bibliography: | Davidson 1952, Corinth 12, cat. 427 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Agora Southeast Notebook Page: NB 147, spread 23 (pp. 36 - 37) |
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