| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 7398 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: COMIC ACTOR | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 7398 | |
| Description: | Figurine of draped, seated, male, comic actor. Figure sits on semicircular draped structure. Head titled slightly to right, both arms, extended, grasp bent left knee in hands pulling it up while bent right leg crosses over shin of left leg. Good head (H. 0.015) of smooth hair, extending down over ears and coming to slight peak in middle of forehead. Prominent, slightly raised brows, short, wide nose, wide mouth with slight grin, broad, longish, smooth, pointed beard. Distended belly and flattened back; wears short, sleeved chiton. Incisions on wrists to indicate tights. Semicircular seat covered with drapery falling in vertical folds. Solid. Mouldmade with evidence of tooling and handworking. Similar to New York 13.225.20, Agora T-2059, Kassel inv. T 560. Mask K (MMC 3rd ed.). Incision on wrists in (?). Seated on semicirular structure covered with drapery. Solid. Mouldmade with hand-worked finishing on back. Mask K (slave), Cf. Monuments Illustrating Old and Middle Comedy (1978). | |
| Decoration: | White slip. Paint: yellow hair and beard; deep red face, hands, feet, and part of seat drapery; brown arms and legs; blue on seat drapery. | |
| Material: | Fine very pale brown clay with rare small spherical sub-rounded brown inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | 10YR 7/4 (very pale brown) | |
| Condition: | Complete or intact. Intact, some wear. Traces of white slip all over. Traces of paint: yellow on hair and beard; blue on seat drapery; deep red on face, hands, feet, and seat drapery; brown on arms and legs. | |
| Manufacture: | F08 M CO | |
| Period: | 4th c. B.C. | |
| Chronology: | based on style | |
| Area: | Agora south central | |
| Context: | NB163 P171 | |
| Bibliography: | Davidson 1952, Corinth 12, cat. 197; Hesperia 29.3, p. 267; MMC 2nd ed., p. 25, cat. AT 14d, pl. Iia; MMC 3rd ed., p. 52 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Agora south central Image: digital 2019 2997 Image: digital 2019 2998 Basket: NB163 P171 Notebook Page: NB 163, spread 94 (pp. 170 - 171) |
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