Glass double head pendant

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Semi-opaque pale turquoise blue, with additions in opaque white and yellow, and translucent cobalt blue; pale turquoise blue suspension loop. Cylindrical with rod hole at bottom; almost flat top; applied suspension loop on top of head. Two faces, back to back; upper half of face in white, with blue and white stratified eyes, white ears flanked above and below with yellow earrings, and white nose; beard in blue with small mouth in yellow. Broken across one face with most of beard missing; some dulling, pitting, and faint weathering, with encrustation inside rod hole. Pale green double bearded mask with colored decoration, and handle at top.

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