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Roman polychrome terracotta of an old slave woman Roman polychrome terracotta of an old slave woman
Roman polychrome terracotta of an old slave woman ROMAN POLYCHROME TERRACOTTA OF AN OLD SLAVE WOMAN

Supporting a large transport amphora with her right hand and holding a jug in her left. Stylistically based on the Hellenistic Greek figures, however, based on the popular characters of the New Comedy, fabulae palliatae, (in the Greek style) of Plautus and Terence.

1st Century BC/ AD

H. 7 in. (17.8 cm.)

Art of the Ancient World, 2011, no. 99
GMG107
$6,500


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