Glass relief fragment

Glass relief fragment

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent light blue; upper layer of opaque light blue. Part of a large square or rectangular plaque; flat, undecorated back, with grozed edges; vertical edges to two remaining sides (top and proper left side). Relief decoration on front, depicting a trophy, comprising an assortment of weapons and arms: shields, helmets, spears, standards, sword, and quiver filled with arrows. Broken and restored from two large fragments, with weathering on broken edges; thick creamy weathering on front, brownish weathering, pitting, and iridescence on back, and iridescent weathering on sides and edges.

Greek and Roman Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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.