Glass bracelet

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Uncertain color, appearing opaque black. Thick, open band with rounded edges and tapering towards ends. Outer surface decorated with two deep parallel grooves running horizontally along the length of the band, which is then divided into segments by ten vertical indents; ends are pinched in and pressed flat with regular parallel lines in relief on both surfaces and appearing like the fins or tail of a fish. Intact; dulling and many patches of brownish enamel-like weathering. Black bracelet with crisscross molded lines.

Greek and Roman Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Museum's collection of Greek and Roman art comprises more than thirty thousand works ranging in date from the Neolithic period (ca. 4500 B.C.) to the time of the Roman emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity in A.D. 312. It includes the art of many cultures and is among the most comprehensive in North America. The geographic regions represented are Greece and Italy, but not as delimited by modern political frontiers: Greek colonies were established around the Mediterranean basin and on the shores of the Black Sea, and Cyprus became increasingly Hellenized. For Roman art, the geographical limits coincide with the expansion of the Roman Empire. The department also exhibits the art of prehistoric Greece (Helladic, Cycladic, and Minoan) and pre-Roman art of Italic peoples, notably the Etruscans.

Metropolitan Museum of Art