Glass pendant

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent honey yellow. Solid, vertical pendant, with mold marks running around sides, top, and bottom; suspension loop on back between shoulders and neck. Shaped like a seated furry animal with pointed nose and ears. Complete, except for proper left ear; dulling and slight weathering. The identification of the animal as an Egyptian jackal may add support to the belief that such figural pendants were made mainly in Ptolemaic Egypt.

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