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This oval-shaped container has solid-cast feet, each of which terminates in a depiction of a comic theater mask, an unusual subject for cista feet. They may show the influence of Greek New Comedy playwrights such as Menander. A solid-cast figure of a nude woman doing a back-bend serves as the handle.
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Title: Bronze cista (toiletries box)
Period: Hellenistic
Date: ca. 300–275 BCE
Culture: Praenestine
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: H. 11 in. (27.9 cm)
Classification: Bronzes
Credit Line: Gift of Courtland Field Bishop, 1922
Object Number: 22.84.3a, b
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