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  Byzantine stone animal: double-headed

  Byzantine stone animal: double-headed

  Carved from two fragments of dark green stone mottled with light patches (steatite probably), these two objects represent animals with highly stylized and abstract shapes.

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  Seated Terracotta Statuette

  Seated Terracotta Statuette

  Like almost all Syrian terracotta statuettes dated to this period, this figurine was hand-modeled in a very stylized, almost instinctive manner; it is seated on a simplified stool.

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  Grotesque Terracotta Head (perhaps a Mime or an Actor)

  Grotesque Terracotta Head (perhaps a Mime or an Actor)

  The statuettes of “grotesques” often represented mimes, street actors, music players, dancers, or even street vendors or workers suffering from physical deformities or afflictions that the sculptors treated in an exaggerated manner, to create a caricature-like effect. At the end of the Hellenistic period, in the large urban centers such as Rome and Alexandria, the theatrical genre of pantomime (according to tradition, this genre was created by Sophron of Syracuse in the 5th century B.C. already) was very popular.

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