Agora Object: T 2404
Inventory Number:   T 2404
Section Number:   Θ 1972
    Ζ 1784
Title:   Inscribed Mold
ΤΙΤΛΟΣ:   Ενεπίγραφη μήτρα με παράσταση σκηνής θεάτρου: η προσωποποίηση της Κωμωδίας σε ανάκλινδρο και καθιστός ο ηθοποιός Πυλάδης
Category:   Terracotta Moulds
Description:   Part of lower edge preserved, with one leg of a low table or couch.
On a sort of a panel hanging from or just under the table and outlined in low relief in the mould, letters, also in low relief.
Second fragment, joining, found. Full height of mold preserved; broken at left, and at lower right.
Represented is a group of two figures, a woman on a couch, and a male figure wearing a comic mask seated on the couch at her feet (to the left in the positive). The woman holds a wreath in her right hand. The man in his left.
In relief in the mold is the inscription: COMEDIA
PYLADES
written on the background beneath the couch.
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ΠΕΡΙΓΡΑΦΗ:   Ενεπίγραφο εκμαγείο από πήλινο σύμπλεγμα σκηνής θεάτρου.
Notes:   Cast only in Stoa Gallery. Mould and extra casts in Cupboard 34/6.
Context:   Burnt layer in front of retaining wall of Middle Stoa.
Second fragment joining, found in Section Z, N.W. corner of Middle Stoa, burnt debris inside terrace retaining wall.
Notebook Page:   3002 ff.
Negatives:   Leica, XLIX-17, XLIX-18, XLIX-19, color slide
PD Number:   PD 1157
Dimensions:   Max. Dim. 0.08; H. 0.012; P.W. 0.135
Date:   7 June 1951, 8 July 1967
Section:   Θ
    Ζ
Grid:   Θ:3-5/ΙΖ-ΙΗ
Deposit:   H-I 12:1
Lot:   Lot Θ 390
Bibliography:   Museum Guide (2014), p. 178.
    Guide (1990), p. 180.
    Guide (1976), p. 268.
    Hesperia 35 (1966), pp. 269-273.
    BICS Suppl. 11 (1961), p. 164, no. AT 37.
    JdI 76 (1961), p. 109.
    Kokolakis (1959), p. 40.
    Agora VI, no. 502, p. 58, pl. 11, fig. 4.
    Agora XIV, p. 214, pl. 108e.
References:   Publications (4)
Publication Pages (4)
Report: 1951 Ζ
Report Page: 1951 Ζ, s. 5
Drawing: PD 1157 (DA 6454)
Images (24)
Deposit: H-I 12:1
Notebook: Ζ-15
Notebook: Ζ-16
Notebook Page: Ζ-15-81 (pp. 2893-2894)
Notebook Page: Ζ-16-39 (pp. 3007-3008)
Card: T 2404
Card: T 2404