Glass pendant in the form of a demonic mask

Glass pendant in the form of a demonic mask

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Uncertain color, appearing opaque black, with additions in same color and opaque white. Cylindrical with rod hole at bottom; rounded top; drawn up at sides with rounded edges; front and back projecting downwards; small applied suspension loop on back of head. Applied stratified eyes, ears or horns on sides of head; long trail from eyes across top of head to loop; projecting snout with small blob at center above; blobs around edge at bottom. Broken on bottom edge at front and back, proper left eye, ears, central blob, and most of suspension loop missing; dulling and faint weathering, with thick reddish brown encrustation in rod hole.

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.