| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 12595 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA MASK: COMIC ACTOR | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 12595 | |
| Description: | Mask of male comic actor. Good head of thick hair, brushed back, and forming slight peak above forehead. Several furrows in forehead and highly cortorted brows, left brow pinched, right brow raised. Wide, bulging eyes with punctured pupils(?), short, wide nose, wide beard. Hollow. Mouldmade with tooled details. Possibly later generation of MF-10501 (Hesperia 34.1, p. 10; Bookidis & Stroud 1997, Corinth 18.3, p. 244). Possibly Pollux' Mask 22. | |
| Decoration: | White slip. | |
| Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay with few medium to small spherical angular brown, black, and fine sparkling inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | 7.5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow) | |
| Condition: | Missing parts. Single frgt., preserving head to upper lip and portion of beard on left; missing most of jaw. Chipped hair, beard, brow. Fairly worn. Traces of white slip in hair. | |
| Manufacture: | F08 M MM | |
| Period: | Hellenistic | |
| Chronology: | based on style | |
| Area: | Peribolos of Apollo | |
| Context: | NB326 B11 P88 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Peribolos of Apollo Image: bw 1966 098 21 |
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