Currently not on view
Mime dancer,
late 2nd century CE
Roman
y1956-101
Information
Title
Mime dancer
Dates
late 2nd century CE
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
7.5 x 4.2 x 2.0 cm (2 15/16 x 1 5/8 x 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Professor Albert Mathias Friend, Jr., Class of 1915
Object Number
y1956-101
Place Excavated
Syria, Hama
Period
Materials
Subject
Said to have been found near Hama, Syria; acquired by Albert Mathias Friend, Jr., from John Khayat, May 22, 1937; by bequest to the Museum in 1956
- Margarete Bieber, "Mima Saltatricula", American journal of archaeology 43, no. 4 (Oct.-Dec., 1939): p. 640-644,, p. 640-644
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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).
, cat. no. 41 (illus.) - Francis Follin Jones, "Eight bronze figurines", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 15, no. 2 (1956): p. 32-38., fig. 1, p. 33 (illus.)
- "Recent acquisitions," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 16, no. 1 (1957): p. 12-14., p. 13
- Margarete Bieber, A history of Greek and Roman theater, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1961). , figs. 267-268, fig. 273
- Allen Rosenbaum and Francis F. Jones, Selections from The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1986), p. 74
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Ruth Mellinkoff, Outcasts: signs of otherness in northern European art of the late Middle Ages, (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993).
, Vol. I: p. 17; Vol II: pl. I.19 (color). - Karl Wilhelm Weeber, Panem et circenses: massenunterhaltung als Politik im antiken Rom, (Mainz am Rhein: P. von Zabern, 1994)., fig. 149.
- Oscar G. Brockett, History of the theatre, (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1995)., p. 68; fig. 3.18.
- E.P. de Loos-Dietz, "Mourir et ressusciter: un monosandalos Gallo-Romain et ses successeurs," Babesch. Bulletin antieke beschaving 76 (2001): p. 159-192., p. 184; fig. 17.
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Evelyn Fertl, Von Musen, Miminnen und leichten Mädchen: die Schauspielerin in der römischen Antike, (Wien, Austria: Braumüller, 2005).
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