
Glass pendant in the form of crescent horns
An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art
Opaque white, medium blue, and light blue, and uncertain color appearing black. Solid rod tooled into shape of a pair of horns, with suspension loop attached at center on top. Horns decorated with spiral trails; trails in light blue at both ends of medium blue loop. Intact; slight pitting and weathering, with encrustation inside loop. White opaque crescent with blue opaque handle and black twisted stripe.
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.