A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 43
elyworked. It is a mask such aswould have been worn by someking in tragedy, an Agamemnonor a Kreon. The general appear-ance of a tragic actor is finelybrought before us by an ivory statuette (not in the Museum) which was found near Rieti, a placeabout 35 miles N.E. of Eome (fig. 19). The… … Fig. 21.—Terracotta Statuette opComic Actor (Slave?) (No. (51).Ht. 8* in. 32 GREEK AND ROMAN LIFE. The figures of actors and the comic masks exhibited under theglass shade and in Table-Case K bring before us the differentcharacters prominent in Athenian comedy of the fourth and thirdcenturies B.C.,…
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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