On view
Ancient Mediterranean Art
Incense burner in the form of a comic actor as an enslaved person, seated on an altar,
2nd–1st century BCE
Greek
Hellenistic
y1948-68
Information
Title
Incense burner in the form of a comic actor as an enslaved person, seated on an altar
Dates
2nd–1st century BCE
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
h. 19.3 cm, w. base 8.7 cm, d. 8.7 cm (7 5/8 x 3 7/16 x 3 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Carl Otto von Kienbusch Jr., Memorial Collection
Object Number
y1948-68
Place Made
Africa, Likely Egypt
Culture
Period
Type
Materials
Purchased from Frank Tano, New York, in 1948.
- "Recent accessions," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University vol. 8, no. 1 (1949): p. 15., p. 15
- Margarete Bieber, "A bronze statuette of a comic actor", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 9, no. 2 (1950): p. 5-12., fig. 1, p. 6 (illus.); fig. 2, p. 7 (illus.)
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The theater in ancient art: an exhibition, the Art Museum, Princeton University, December 10, 1951-January 6, 1952 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1951).
, no. 48 (illus.) -
Fasti archaeologici 5 (1952).
, p. 33 - Frances Follin Jones, "The Princeton Art Museum: antiquities received in recent years", Archaeology 7, no. 4 (Dec., 1954): p. 237-243., p. 238
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"Oberlin College, the Art Department and the Museum", Bulletin (Allen Memorial Art Museum) 11, no. 2 (1954).
, p. 150-151 - Margarete Bieber, Sculpture of the Hellenistic Age, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1955). , p. 124-125; fig. 492
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The Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Jr. Memorial Collection (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum, 1956)
, cat. no. 3 - F. F. Jones and R. Goldberg, Ancient art in the Art Museum: Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1960)., p. 10; p. 11 (illus.)
- T. B. L. Webster, Monuments illustrating new comedy, (London: Institute of Classical Studies, 1961). , p. 115, ST17;
- Margarete Bieber, The history of the Greek and Roman theater, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1961). , p. 89; fig. 316
- Dorothy Burr Thompson, "Three centuries of Hellenistic terracottas: V, the mid-second century B.C.", Hesperia 34, no. 1 (Jan.–Mar., 1965): p. 34-71, p. 59, note 61
- Emeline Hill Richardson and Gilbert Kenneth Sams, Small sculptures in bronze from the classical world, (Chapel Hill, NC: William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center, 1976)., cat. no. 55 (Illus.)
- Lionel Casson, The Greek conquerors, (Chicago, IL: Stonehenge Press, 1981)., p. 146 (color illus.)
- Sander M. Goldberg, Understanding Terence, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986). , Cover illus.
- Allen Rosenbaum and Francis F. Jones, Selections from The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1986), p. 29 (illus.)
- Andrew Oliver, "An incense burner in the form of an actor as a slave on an altar," in J. Arce and F. Burhalter, eds., Bronces y religion romana: actas del XI Congreso Internacional de Bronces Antiguos, Madrid, mayo-junio, 1990, (Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 1993)., pp. 331-336
- Maria Teresa Marabini Moevs, "Dionysos at the Altar of Rhea: a myth of darkness and rebirth in Ptolemaic Alexandria", in John Pollini, ed., Terra marique: studies in art history and marine archaeology in honor of Anna Marguerite McCann on the receipt of the gold medal of the Archaeological Institute of America, (Oxford, UK: Oxbow Books, 2005)., p. 83; p. 85, fig. 7.13
