Lamp in the Form of a Comic Mask, 75-125. Additional Info: The body of this Roman lamp takes the form of a comic mask set on a low turned foot. Oil was added through the open mouth of the mask and the nozzle for the wick emerges below the beard. A pointed leaf decorates the space on top of the nozzle between the lamp's body and the small, round mouth. The mask represents the "Leading Slave", a sly and resourceful stock character from Greek New Comedy (about 320-290 ), and shows the typical features of a scoop-shaped beard, snub nose, and furrowed brow. His open, upturned mo
Lamp in the Form of a Comic Mask, 75-125. Additional Info: The body of this Roman lamp takes the form of a comic mask set on a low turned foot. Oil was added through the open mouth of the mask and the nozzle for the wick emerges below the beard. A pointed leaf decorates the space on top of the nozzle between the lamp's body and the small, round mouth. The mask represents the "Leading Slave", a sly and resourceful stock character from Greek New Comedy (about 320-290 ), and shows the typical features of a scoop-shaped beard, snub nose, and furrowed brow. His open, upturned mouth is fringed with a finely incised semicircular beard and serves as the filling hole. Most of the hair is covered with a kerchief, from which short tassels of corkscrew curls emerge at the sides. The headdress is crowned with a wreath of ivy leaves and berries in high relief, which continues below to adorn the base of the lamp’s handle. Set low on the body, a fragment of the upswept loop handle survives in the form of a stylized vine with a turned-back leaf.
Size: 3801px × 4960px
Photo credit: © Heritage Images / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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