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GEAECO-KOMAN BASEMENT.
(1.) Comic Actor, seated on a square plinth.—This
figure wears a mask of the Satyric type, with wide open
mouth for the free transmission of the voice. The hair,
bound with a wreath of flowers, is arranged in parallel
tresses, and confined at the back by a broad band. The
dress is that characteristic of comic actors—a close-fitting-
jerkin with long sleeves, anaxyrides or trousers, and over
the jerkin the exomis, a garment without sleeves, usually
worn by slaves. A short mantle passes round his waist
and over his left shoulder ; on his feet, which are crossed,
are sandals. His right hand rests on the plinth on which
he is seated. For similar representations of comic actors
on the Greek and Eoman stage, see Wieseler, Theater-
gebaude, pi. xi., fig. 8, and the vases, Nos. 19, 20 (Guide to
Second Vase Room, p. 6). The Davus, and other familiar
characters of the comedies of Terence and Plautus, were
doubtless thus attired on the stage. It has been thought
this figure represents a slave taking refuge at an altar, see
Wieseler, loc. cit. Restorations : legs from knees to ankles,
and the right forearm to the wrist.
Ht. 2 ft. Found in the Villa Fonsega, on the Caelian Hill at Rome, in
1773. Mus. Marbles, X., pi. 43, fig. 1. Ellis, T. G., I., p. 220.
Clarac, pi. 873, No. 2222a. T.
(2.) Vase.—On the front a Bacchic scene in relief;
round the neck branches of ivy. The handles terminate
on the shoulder of the vase in swans' heads; and the form
B
(1.) Comic Actor, seated on a square plinth.—This
figure wears a mask of the Satyric type, with wide open
mouth for the free transmission of the voice. The hair,
bound with a wreath of flowers, is arranged in parallel
tresses, and confined at the back by a broad band. The
dress is that characteristic of comic actors—a close-fitting-
jerkin with long sleeves, anaxyrides or trousers, and over
the jerkin the exomis, a garment without sleeves, usually
worn by slaves. A short mantle passes round his waist
and over his left shoulder ; on his feet, which are crossed,
are sandals. His right hand rests on the plinth on which
he is seated. For similar representations of comic actors
on the Greek and Eoman stage, see Wieseler, Theater-
gebaude, pi. xi., fig. 8, and the vases, Nos. 19, 20 (Guide to
Second Vase Room, p. 6). The Davus, and other familiar
characters of the comedies of Terence and Plautus, were
doubtless thus attired on the stage. It has been thought
this figure represents a slave taking refuge at an altar, see
Wieseler, loc. cit. Restorations : legs from knees to ankles,
and the right forearm to the wrist.
Ht. 2 ft. Found in the Villa Fonsega, on the Caelian Hill at Rome, in
1773. Mus. Marbles, X., pi. 43, fig. 1. Ellis, T. G., I., p. 220.
Clarac, pi. 873, No. 2222a. T.
(2.) Vase.—On the front a Bacchic scene in relief;
round the neck branches of ivy. The handles terminate
on the shoulder of the vase in swans' heads; and the form
B