Watch List notes:

ASIA MINOR. Uncertain. 2nd-3rd centuries. Tessera (Lead, 16 mm, 2.08 g). Theater mask of a grotesque figure with large nose, lips and chin. Rev. Blank. Apparently unpublished. A highly interesting piece. Good very fine.


From a collection of lead tesserae from Asia Minor.

Theater masks of all sorts regularly appear on Roman intaglio gems. For theater masks showing grotesque figures, see AG Wien 2083 and Maaskant-Kleibrink 143.