Glass pendant shaped like a jar

Glass pendant shaped like a jar

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Uncertain color, appearing opaque black; loop and base in same color; trail in opaque pale yellow. Squat globular body; flat pad base; thick circular suspension loop applied at top. Zigzag trail wound once round body. Intact, but chipped on pad base; dulling, pitting, and faint weathering. Brown opaque pendant with handle and yellow zigzag on side.

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.