Abstrakt
The article discusses a selection of five particular pieces from the 27 sealings found at Pistiros in Bulgaria in 2012, most of them with two imprints, apparentyl attached to a document with a contract or a deal. Subjects represented on the seals discussed here show grotesque, caricature andmice acting as humans.
They reflect a specific anecdotic side of Greek art in its northern fringes expressed in grotesque, at the time of Philip II and Alexander the Great. Attached is a late 4th century Attic pelike from Pistiros with similar caricature of Rhea and Kronos or the maenad with Dionysus from the ca. 310 BC destruction.