Glass double-headed pendant with gold hoop

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Pendant: Translucent honey brown. Oval disk with flat projecting flange around heads; trailed ring for suspension hoop attached to top of disk; pierced vertical hole at bottom of disk. The two heads are very similar but not identical: hair arranged in two rows of knobby curls; irregular lines running across forehead; eyes with pupils; drooping mustache and facial hair on cheeks. Complete, except for chip to one side of hole under chin; dulling and patches of weathering.

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