Glass head pendant

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent blue green, with additions in opaque white and yellow and dark blue. Cylindrical with large rod hole at bottom; horizontal rounded edge at back, two-pronged front projecting downwards; applied suspension loop on top of head. Face in yellow applied as a large pad, with added nose in yellow, layered eyes in blue and white, eyebrows in blue, ears in yellow, pendant earrings in white and mouth in yellow; two vertical tooled grooves mark beard. Suspension loop, most of nose, and proper right earring missing; some pitting and dulling, with enamel-like creamy weathering on most of blue green body of pendant.

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