Dancing Figure, Possibly with Dwarfism

3rd century BCE (Ptolemaic)

4 cm 11.4 cm 3.3 cm

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The peaked cap suggests that the dancer is a mime who wears the traditional headdress of a clown or buffoon. This figure may represent an individual with the characteristics of dwarfism.

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S. Pozzi Collection Sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1919, no. 420; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1919, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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