Mask of a young satyr

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Mask of a young satyr
Mask of a young satyr

The mask depicts a young satyr wearing a wreath. The face has a powerful jaw, full cheeks, a short, rounded chin with a dimple in the center, and a wide-open mouth. The eyes are staring and hollowed out with convex eyeballs and perforated irises, surrounded by heavy eyelids. The forehead has a bump in the upper portion and is furrowed by a horizontal crease. The ears are pointed, and the hair rises up over the forehead. The wreath - worked by hand and applied before firing - is decorated with six ivy leaves and two round pieces of fruit at the center. There are two suspension holes in the lower part of the nape of the neck. The ancient polychromy is extensively preserved - brownish red (hair and face), orange red (orbital arch and mouth), white (interior of the orbital arch, teeth, and wreath), black (eyebrows), pink (ears), and sky blue (leaves of the wreath). The mask is produced as though a scale model of originals that were worn onstage by actors.

It is most closely comparable with the production of Centuripe, in Sicily, in the second century BCE.

Greek (Sicilian), 200-100 BCE. Terracotta with polychromy (brownish red, orange red, white, black, pink, sky blue).

Getty Villa Museum (96.AD.305)

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Taken on: March 13, 2024
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