Glass pendant in the shape of Harpokrates

Glass pendant in the shape of Harpokrates

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Colorless. Solid, vertical pendant, with mold marks running up sides of figure, over his head, and under his feet; on his back a small vertical suspension loop. Harpokrates, standing facing front, with curly hair topped with a small version of the double crown of Egypt, wearing large globular earrings, naked, left arm at side, right arm bent up across his chest and his forefinger pressed to his lips. Intact; some pitting and very faint weathering. Probably made in the same mold as 17.194.422. Colorless figure of Harpokrates with perforated handle behind.

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.