The present paper examines three clay miniature theatrical masks from the offerings of a child cremation and two similar figurines of a comic actor, which come from the destruction layer of the organised necropolis of ancient Lete. The morphological features of the two male theatrical masks allow us to classify them as the theatrical character of New Comedy known as θεράπων ἡγεμὼν ἐπίσειστος, while those of the female mask permit to identify the first false-maiden. The terracotta figurines of the actor repeat a well-known iconographic type of a character of Middle Comedy, the house slave lamentinghis fate. Their dating to the early 3rd century bc is supported by exact iconographic parallels. The aforementioned figurines —along with other relevant findings— help us understand the social and cultural environment in which the local community of Lete developed during the early Hellenistic period, when the city enjoyed its greatest economic and cultural prosperity.
