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actor dressed as old nurse with baby
Greek
Late Classical Period
about 350 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique
Terracotta
Dimensions
8 cm (3 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution
Accession Number01.7892
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsSculpture
DescriptionThe actor wears the mask of an old woman and is completely wrapped in a long himation. The baby seems to be a cylindrical prop with a conical top. The actor touches his chin, perhaps in astonishment, perpelexity, or simply the act of eating.
ProvenanceBy 1901: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: Bought in Athens (Rhousopoulos: whose is the mark [in Greek] Athenon 1877).); purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, December 1901