Terracotta statues of comic actors

From The Life of Comedy after the Death of Plautus and Terence by Mathias Hanses

  • Terracotta statues of comic actors, each about 115 cm tall, wearing soleae, full-body tights, tunics, masks, and wigs; Pompeii, late first c. BCE; MANN, inv. 22248 and 22249. The performer on the left portrays a young man and accordingly wears a pallium. The one on the right plays a young woman and hence wears the stola and palla.
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  • Classical Studies:Roman
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  • late first century BCE
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  • Fig. 1. Terracotta statues of comic actors, each about 115 cm tall, wearing soleae, full-body tights, tunics, masks, and wigs; Pompeii, late first century BCE; MANN, inv. 22248 and 22249. The performer on the left portrays a young man and accordingly wears a pallium. The one on the right plays a young woman and hence wears the stola and palla. The photographs are my own, used by permission of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli.