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Figured terracotta
Late 3rd - early 2nd century BC
MArTA - Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Taranto
Taranto, Italy
Terracotta figure of a masked comic actor, impersonating a slave with a baby in swaddling clothes in his arms. Representations of comic characters are frequently attested in Tarentine funerary objects from this period. They may have had a symbolic meaning linked to the wearing of masks and the rituals of the Dionysian cult.
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Details
- Title: Figured terracotta
- Date Created: Late 3rd - early 2nd century BC
- Location Created: Taranto, Regio Arsenale, 1896
- Physical Dimensions: 15 cm (height)
- Medium: Terracotta
- Room: Storage
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