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Statuette of drunken old woman

1st century A.D.
Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale
Inv. 124844

 

An old woman, drunken and slovenly, is portrayed with a wine amphora at her feet. She is holding her head in her right hand, her gaze lost in the void. Her enormous drooling mouth gapes open. In her left hand she holds a big cup.