Sunday, November 25, 2018

 

Old Man

Glass plaques for inlay, representing old man's mask, in British Museum, acc. 1897.5-11.112, inv. 29396, late 1st/early 2nd century A.D., from Egypt:


Description from T.B.L. Webster, Monuments Illustrating New Comedy, 3rd ed., vol. 2 (London: Institute of Classical Studies, 1995), p. 284 (4EG 1.b):
Pair of matching half-plaques, with remains of setting. Peaked white hair striated back from forehead, wisps of side-hair, short beard from slave-like mouth, wrinkled cheeks.
See also Richard Green and Eric Handley, Images of the Greek Theatre (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995), pp. 97-98.



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