Glass pendant in the form of a leaf

Glass pendant in the form of a leaf

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent deep blue green. Solid elliptic block, flat on underside, convex on upper, pierced with small hole at top end; roughly chipped edge. On upper side, leaf design in relief with central vertical stem and three diagonal stems to each side. Intact; some pitting and faint weathering.

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.