Glass double-headed pendant

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent cobalt blue, with loop in same color. Oval disk; applied small suspension loop trailed on at top on one side of mold with horizontal hole. Vertical mold seams visible at sides. Vertical hole driven into disk from below. On each face of disk, identical male head in relief facing front, with crown of hair, drooping moustache, and thick beard extending onto cheeks. Intact; almost completely covered with creamy weathering and faint iridescence.

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