| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | T 1062 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: COMIC ACTOR | |
| Category: | Miscellaneous | |
| Category Code: | T | |
| Object Number: | 1062 | |
| Description: | Figurine of draped standing male comic actor. Figure stands with slightly bent left arm raised above head (leaning on spear?). Bent right arm juts outwards with hand resting on hip. Feet apart, with weight on straight right leg. Left leg relaxed with toes pointing slightly outwards. Wears small, close-ftting cap with wide, raised border. Short hair under cap, especially at temples. Left ear visible. Sharply raised brows, big, long nose, weary eyes, plump, sagging cheeks, nearly closed, slighlty grinning mouth with very large lips, double chin. Distended belly and short chiton under chlamys fastened on right shoulder, falling over back and draped over left shoulder. Low, polygonal base with irregularly-shaped vent hole underneath. Hollow. Mouldmade with some details incised. Mask Z (MMC 3rd ed.). | |
| Decoration: | White slip. Deep red face, arms, belly, phallus, legs, and feet. | |
| Material: | Fine brownish yellow clay with very rare medium spherical and tabular sub-rounded brown and black inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | 10YR 6/6 (brownish yellow) | |
| Condition: | Missing parts. Mostly intact, left shoulder mended; missing left hand and right ear. Worn, possibly broken phallus. Chipped base. Some accretion. Traces of white slip all over. Traces of deep red paint on face, arms, underbelly, phallus, and legs. | |
| Manufacture: | F08 M MM | |
| Period: | 4th c. B.C. | |
| Chronology: | based on style | |
| Area: | North Cemetery | |
| Context: | NB389 P10 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Bibliography: | Blegen et al. 1964, Corinth 13, cat. X-113; MMC 2nd ed., p. 50, cat. CT 7, pl. IIIb; MMC 3rd ed., p. 130, cat. CT 8; Greek Theatre in the Fourth Century BC, p. 361-2 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: North Cemetery Image: bw 8392 Image: bw 8393 |
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