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Title: Terracotta statuette of an actor Period: Late Classical Date: late 5th–early 4th century BCE Culture: Greek, Attic Medium: Terracotta Dimensions: H. 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm) Classification: Terracottas Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1913 Object Number: 13.225.25 Fourteen of these figures are said to have been found together in a burial in Attica. They are among the earliest known statuettes of actors and are superbly executed and preserved. Originally they were brightly painted. They document the beginning of standardized characters and masks, indicating the popularity not of a specific figure but of types—the old man, the slave, the courtesan, etc.—that appeared repeatedly in different plays. By the mid-fourth century B.C., Attic examples or local copies were known throughout the Greek world, from Southern Russia to Spain. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/248775

Title: Terracotta statuette of an actor Period: Late Classical Date: late 5th–early 4th century BCE Culture: Greek, Attic Medium: Terracotta Dimensions: H. 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm) Classification: Terracottas Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1913 Object Number: 13.225.25 Fourteen of these figures are said to have been found together in a burial in Attica. They are among the earliest known statuettes of actors and are superbly executed and preserved. Originally they were brightly painted. They document the beginning of standardized characters and masks, indicating the popularity not of a specific figure but of types—the old man, the slave, the courtesan, etc.—that appeared repeatedly in different plays. By the mid-fourth century B.C., Attic examples or local copies were known throughout the Greek world, from Southern Russia to Spain. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/248775

Title: Terracotta statuette of an actor Period: Late Classical Date: late 5th–early 4th century BCE Culture: Greek, Attic Medium: Terracotta Dimensions: H. 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm) Classification: Terracottas Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1913 Accession Number: 13.225.19 Fourteen of these figures are said to have been found together in a burial in Attica. They are among the earliest known statuettes of actors and are superbly executed and preserved. Originally they were brightly painted. They document the beginning of standardized characters and masks, indicating the popularity not of a specific figure but of types—the old man, the slave, the courtesan, etc.—that appeared repeatedly in different plays. By the mid-fourth century B.C., Attic examples or local copies were known throughout the Greek world, from Southern Russia to Spain. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/248769

Title: Terracotta statuette of an actor Period: Late Classical Date: late 5th–early 4th century BCE Culture: Greek, Attic Medium: Terracotta Dimensions: H. 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm) Classification: Terracottas Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1913 Accession Number: 13.225.19 Fourteen of these figures are said to have been found together in a burial in Attica. They are among the earliest known statuettes of actors and are superbly executed and preserved. Originally they were brightly painted. They document the beginning of standardized characters and masks, indicating the popularity not of a specific figure but of types—the old man, the slave, the courtesan, etc.—that appeared repeatedly in different plays. By the mid-fourth century B.C., Attic examples or local copies were known throughout the Greek world, from Southern Russia to Spain. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/248769

Title: Apulian Red-Figure Stemless Kylix Artist/Maker: Name Vase of the Painter of the Fleischman Phlyax Cup (Greek (Apulian), active about 360 - 350 B.C.) Culture: Greek (South Italian, Apulian) Place: Apulia, South Italy, Europe (Place created) Date: 360 - 350 B.C. Medium: Terracotta Object Number: 96.AE.115 Dimensions: 5.8 × 23.9 × 16.1 cm (2 5/16 × 9 7/16 × 6 5/16 in.) Credit Line: Gift of Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman Alternate Titles: Red-figured stemless kylix (Alternate Title) Wine Cup with Dionysos and an Actor (Display Title) Object Type: Kylix The Greek god Dionysos appears on this Apulian red-figure cup in his role as the god of theater. An actor costumed as a phlyax and holding a wreath stands before Dionysos. The god sits on a chair with a cloak wrapped around his legs holding a phiale, or offering dish, which contains three white objects, perhaps eggs. The term phlyax is used for both farces parodying the heroes and themes of mythology or the comic elements of everyday life and for the actors who performed them. These plays were popular in the 300s and 200s B.C. in the Greek colonies in Italy. The term phlyax probably derives from the Greek verb "to swell" and finds its meaning in the actor's costume of a mask, tights, a padded tunic, and a large artificial phallus. On the outside of this cup, set on a low disk foot, a seated woman holding another phiale with eggs faces a kneeling Eros holding a fillet or ribbon. On the other side, a similar scene is depicted. A nude boy kneels before a woman holding a phiale and a mirror. This cup represents a change in the theatrical scenes that were so popular on South Italian pottery. About 360 B.C., painters shifted from depicting scenes from plays to alluding to the theater by showing either an actor or Dionysos. Text from: www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/29518/name-vase-of-the-painter-of-the-fleischman-phlyax-cup-apulian-red-figure-stemless-kylix-greek-south-italian-apulian-360-350-bc

Title: Apulian Red-Figure Stemless Kylix Artist/Maker: Name Vase of the Painter of the Fleischman Phlyax Cup (Greek (Apulian), active about 360 - 350 B.C.) Culture: Greek (South Italian, Apulian) Place: Apulia, South Italy, Europe (Place created) Date: 360 - 350 B.C. Medium: Terracotta Object Number: 96.AE.115 Dimensions: 5.8 × 23.9 × 16.1 cm (2 5/16 × 9 7/16 × 6 5/16 in.) Credit Line: Gift of Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman Alternate Titles: Red-figured stemless kylix (Alternate Title) Wine Cup with Dionysos and an Actor (Display Title) Object Type: Kylix The Greek god Dionysos appears on this Apulian red-figure cup in his role as the god of theater. An actor costumed as a phlyax and holding a wreath stands before Dionysos. The god sits on a chair with a cloak wrapped around his legs holding a phiale, or offering dish, which contains three white objects, perhaps eggs. The term phlyax is used for both farces parodying the heroes and themes of mythology or the comic elements of everyday life and for the actors who performed them. These plays were popular in the 300s and 200s B.C. in the Greek colonies in Italy. The term phlyax probably derives from the Greek verb "to swell" and finds its meaning in the actor's costume of a mask, tights, a padded tunic, and a large artificial phallus. On the outside of this cup, set on a low disk foot, a seated woman holding another phiale with eggs faces a kneeling Eros holding a fillet or ribbon. On the other side, a similar scene is depicted. A nude boy kneels before a woman holding a phiale and a mirror. This cup represents a change in the theatrical scenes that were so popular on South Italian pottery. About 360 B.C., painters shifted from depicting scenes from plays to alluding to the theater by showing either an actor or Dionysos. Text from: www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/29518/name-vase-of-the-painter-of-the-fleischman-phlyax-cup-apulian-red-figure-stemless-kylix-greek-south-italian-apulian-360-350-bc

Title: Apulian Red-Figure Stemless Kylix Artist/Maker: Name Vase of the Painter of the Fleischman Phlyax Cup (Greek (Apulian), active about 360 - 350 B.C.) Culture: Greek (South Italian, Apulian) Place: Apulia, South Italy, Europe (Place created) Date: 360 - 350 B.C. Medium: Terracotta Object Number: 96.AE.115 Dimensions: 5.8 × 23.9 × 16.1 cm (2 5/16 × 9 7/16 × 6 5/16 in.) Credit Line: Gift of Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman Alternate Titles: Red-figured stemless kylix (Alternate Title) Wine Cup with Dionysos and an Actor (Display Title) Object Type: Kylix The Greek god Dionysos appears on this Apulian red-figure cup in his role as the god of theater. An actor costumed as a phlyax and holding a wreath stands before Dionysos. The god sits on a chair with a cloak wrapped around his legs holding a phiale, or offering dish, which contains three white objects, perhaps eggs. The term phlyax is used for both farces parodying the heroes and themes of mythology or the comic elements of everyday life and for the actors who performed them. These plays were popular in the 300s and 200s B.C. in the Greek colonies in Italy. The term phlyax probably derives from the Greek verb "to swell" and finds its meaning in the actor's costume of a mask, tights, a padded tunic, and a large artificial phallus. On the outside of this cup, set on a low disk foot, a seated woman holding another phiale with eggs faces a kneeling Eros holding a fillet or ribbon. On the other side, a similar scene is depicted. A nude boy kneels before a woman holding a phiale and a mirror. This cup represents a change in the theatrical scenes that were so popular on South Italian pottery. About 360 B.C., painters shifted from depicting scenes from plays to alluding to the theater by showing either an actor or Dionysos. Text from: www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/29518/name-vase-of-the-painter-of-the-fleischman-phlyax-cup-apulian-red-figure-stemless-kylix-greek-south-italian-apulian-360-350-bc

Title: Apulian Red-Figure Stemless Kylix Artist/Maker: Name Vase of the Painter of the Fleischman Phlyax Cup (Greek (Apulian), active about 360 - 350 B.C.) Culture: Greek (South Italian, Apulian) Place: Apulia, South Italy, Europe (Place created) Date: 360 - 350 B.C. Medium: Terracotta Object Number: 96.AE.115 Dimensions: 5.8 × 23.9 × 16.1 cm (2 5/16 × 9 7/16 × 6 5/16 in.) Credit Line: Gift of Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman Alternate Titles: Red-figured stemless kylix (Alternate Title) Wine Cup with Dionysos and an Actor (Display Title) Object Type: Kylix The Greek god Dionysos appears on this Apulian red-figure cup in his role as the god of theater. An actor costumed as a phlyax and holding a wreath stands before Dionysos. The god sits on a chair with a cloak wrapped around his legs holding a phiale, or offering dish, which contains three white objects, perhaps eggs. The term phlyax is used for both farces parodying the heroes and themes of mythology or the comic elements of everyday life and for the actors who performed them. These plays were popular in the 300s and 200s B.C. in the Greek colonies in Italy. The term phlyax probably derives from the Greek verb "to swell" and finds its meaning in the actor's costume of a mask, tights, a padded tunic, and a large artificial phallus. On the outside of this cup, set on a low disk foot, a seated woman holding another phiale with eggs faces a kneeling Eros holding a fillet or ribbon. On the other side, a similar scene is depicted. A nude boy kneels before a woman holding a phiale and a mirror. This cup represents a change in the theatrical scenes that were so popular on South Italian pottery. About 360 B.C., painters shifted from depicting scenes from plays to alluding to the theater by showing either an actor or Dionysos. Text from: www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/29518/name-vase-of-the-painter-of-the-fleischman-phlyax-cup-apulian-red-figure-stemless-kylix-greek-south-italian-apulian-360-350-bc

Incense Burner in the Form of a Comic Actor Sitting on an Altar Greek (Alexandrian?), 2nd-1st centuries BC Said to be from Egypt Bronze # Y1948-68 Text from the Princeton University Art Museum label.

Vase in the Form of a Comic Actor Sitting on an Altar Greek, South Italy, 2nd century BC Ceramic # Y1987-53 Text from the Princeton University Art Museum label.

Title: Proto-Paestan Red-Figure Calyx Krater Artist/Maker: Attributed to the Painter of Louvre K 240 (Greek, active about 375 - 350 B.C.) Culture: Greek (Sicilian) Place: Sicily, Italy (Place Created) Date: about 360 B.C. Medium: Terracotta Object Number: 96.AE.30 Dimensions: 37.5 cm (14 3/4 in.) Alternate Titles: Mixing Vessel with a Festive Procession (Display Title) Mixing Vessel with Dionysos, a Comic Actor, and a Satyr Carrying Eros (Display Title) Department: Antiquities Classification: Vessels Object Type: Krater Side A: Dionysiac scene showing a white-haired phlyax or comic actor between the god Dionysos and a satyr, all moving left over gently undulating ground, depicted by curving lines in added white, from which spring a few plants. At the head of the procession is a youthful Dionysos, naked except for drapery over both arms, which flows behind his back. His long hair is crowned with an ivy wreath in added white. He holds a kithara (details in added white) in his left hand and a plectrum in his right. Turning his head to the right, he faces the phlyax who follows him, holding a blazing torch in each hand and wearing the mask of an old man (Type L or M, with details in added white). Behind him comes a bearded satyr whose chest and belly are covered with shaggy hair. The satyr plays double pipes and carries piggyback a small Eros. The latter wears a spiky diadem; his hands grasp the satyr's head above the brow, and his legs come down on either side of his head. The wings of Eros are outspread and enlivened by a white edge at the top and black or black-on-white dots on the feathers. Side B: To left a nude bearded satyr, wearing a fillet or diadem around his head, bends forward over his left foot, which rests on a rock pile; he holds a string of beads in his left hand and with his right he gesticulates towards a maenad. The latter stands, wearing a chiton and holds a thyrsos. Around the rim: band of laurel. Below the picture field on A and B: band of meander, with a saltire square at each end. Text from: www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/29522/attributed-to-the-painter-of-louvre-k-240-proto-paestan-red-figure-calyx-krater-greek-sicilian-about-360-bc

Title: Proto-Paestan Red-Figure Calyx Krater Artist/Maker: Attributed to the Painter of Louvre K 240 (Greek, active about 375 - 350 B.C.) Culture: Greek (Sicilian) Place: Sicily, Italy (Place Created) Date: about 360 B.C. Medium: Terracotta Object Number: 96.AE.30 Dimensions: 37.5 cm (14 3/4 in.) Alternate Titles: Mixing Vessel with a Festive Procession (Display Title) Mixing Vessel with Dionysos, a Comic Actor, and a Satyr Carrying Eros (Display Title) Department: Antiquities Classification: Vessels Object Type: Krater Side A: Dionysiac scene showing a white-haired phlyax or comic actor between the god Dionysos and a satyr, all moving left over gently undulating ground, depicted by curving lines in added white, from which spring a few plants. At the head of the procession is a youthful Dionysos, naked except for drapery over both arms, which flows behind his back. His long hair is crowned with an ivy wreath in added white. He holds a kithara (details in added white) in his left hand and a plectrum in his right. Turning his head to the right, he faces the phlyax who follows him, holding a blazing torch in each hand and wearing the mask of an old man (Type L or M, with details in added white). Behind him comes a bearded satyr whose chest and belly are covered with shaggy hair. The satyr plays double pipes and carries piggyback a small Eros. The latter wears a spiky diadem; his hands grasp the satyr's head above the brow, and his legs come down on either side of his head. The wings of Eros are outspread and enlivened by a white edge at the top and black or black-on-white dots on the feathers. Side B: To left a nude bearded satyr, wearing a fillet or diadem around his head, bends forward over his left foot, which rests on a rock pile; he holds a string of beads in his left hand and with his right he gesticulates towards a maenad. The latter stands, wearing a chiton and holds a thyrsos. Around the rim: band of laurel. Below the picture field on A and B: band of meander, with a saltire square at each end. Text from: www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/29522/attributed-to-the-painter-of-louvre-k-240-proto-paestan-red-figure-calyx-krater-greek-sicilian-about-360-bc