• 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.

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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