Glass bracelet

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent cobalt blue; trails in opaque yellow. Seamless broad band with flattened semicircular cross section. On outer surface, three ribs running around band, central one projecting out more; outer ribs decorated with four matching lengths of zigzag trail; central rib with four longer lengths of zigzag trail interspersed with four sets of three blobs. Broken and repaired, with chips missing from broken edges, and some of trails missing, leaving hollows in surface of bracelet; pinprick and elongated bubbles; surface pitting and patches of weathering. Similar bracelets have been found at La Tene sites in central Europe.

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