Gold leaf frontlet (band for forehead)

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Addorsed palmettes Sheet gold ornaments made for the grave are decorated in low relief. The motifs were cut into a concave mold, and the sheet metal was pressed into the forms. The sheet was then cut to the desired shape. The vegetal decoration here is characteristic especially of East Greek art of the seventh century B.C.

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