File talk:3304 - Athens - Stoà of Attalus Museum - Theatre mask - Photo by Giovanni Dall'Orto, Nov 9 2009.jpg

Datation

Sorry the datation is wrong. The museum says "200 - 250" CURRENT ERA.--Jebulon (talk) 16:53, 8 May 2016 (UTC)

That cannot be true, must be an oversight.

This mask is commonly dated "c. 250 BC" (see Ancient Classics at Maynooth University, on Facebook and Homepage of the Athenian Agora Excavations, which are also responsible for the Agora Museum in the Attalos Stoa). It depicts the leading slave in a comedy.

So far, images of the same object were dated inconsistently in Wikimedia: "200 - 250 C.E." (= Christian Era, i.e. 500 years too late) vs. "secolo IV/III a.C." (= 4th/3rd century BC).

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Terracotta_comedy_mask_agora_museum_athens.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:3304_-_Athens_-_Stoà_of_Attalus_Museum_-_Theatre_mask_-_Photo_by_Giovanni_Dall%27Orto,_Nov_9_2009.jpg

-- Martinus KE (talk) 14:15, 4 July 2020 (UTC)