Currently not on view
Comic mask of a slave,
3rd–2nd century BCE
Greek
Hellenistic
y1950-69
Information
Title
Comic mask of a slave
Dates
3rd–2nd century BCE
Medium
Terracotta
Dimensions
11.7 x 12.0 x 4.8 cm (4 5/8 x 4 3/4 x 1 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase
Object Number
y1950-69
Culture
Period
Type
Materials
Subject
Acquired by Charles Morley at an unknown date from an unknown source; purchased by the Museum in 1950 from Morley.
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Niels Breitenstein, Catalogue of terracottas: Cypriote, Greek, Etrusco-Italian and Roman, (Copenhagen: E. Munksgaard, 1941).
, no. 6 (figurine) - Saul S. Weinberg, "Investigations at Corinth, 1947-1948", Hesperia 18, no. 1 (Jan.-Mar., 1949): p. 148-157., p. 152, pl. 17; no. 23
- Vagn Poulson, Catalogue des terres cuites grecques et romaines, (Copenhague: E. Munksgaard?, 1949). , no. 87
- H. Goldman, ed., Excavations at Gözlü Kule, Tarsus, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1950).
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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.) - 'Recent acquisitions", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 10, no. 1 (1951): p. 19., p. 19
- Margarete Bieber, A history of Greek and Roman theater, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1961). , pp. 423-424, fig. 561; fig. 829
- T. B. L. Webster, Monuments illustrating new comedy, (London: Institute of Classical Studies, University of London School of Advanced Study, 1995)., p. 276, no. 4DT 7f.
