Comic actor statuette 1st C. CE

"Since Plautus has met death, Comedy mourns,
Deserted is the stage; then Laughter, Sport and Wit,
And Music's countless numbers all together wept."

-The Epitaph of Plautus; from Gellius' Attic Nights

Statuette of a comic actor, ivory with polychromy, 1st century, perhaps from Rome. Currently in the Petit Palais, in Paris.

Source:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Petit_Palais_Acteur_comique_Ivoire_polychrome_13012018_1.jpg

https://www.flickr.com/photos/69716881@N02/28760030665/in/photostream/

 

Quote:

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Gellius/1*.html#24