Glass head pendant

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent pale yellow brown, with additions in opaque yellow, translucent pale yellow brown and blue. Cylindrical with large rod hole at bottom; horizontal rounded edge at back, U-shaped large front projecting downwards; applied suspension loop on top of head. Applied row of large curls across forehead in brown, extending back across top of head; upper half of face in yellow, with long blue eyebrows meeting across bridge of nose, blue and yellow stratified eyes, and long slender applied nose; mouth concealed by beard of long radiating curls; trails to sides of head for ears. Intact, but crack in back of head and part of two curls on forehead missing; dulling, pitting, creamy enamel-like weathering, and some iridescence. Bearded.

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