Glass figurine

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent dark green, appearing black. Solid block carved into a human figure. Standing nude male with head turned in profile to left, proper right arm outstretched, legs projecting slightly forward, hair in tight curls arranged in neat rows back from forehead, strap suspended with pendants or small bells across back, over proper right shoulder, and extending under proper left arm. Broken on upper proper right arm and legs around the knees, with proper left arm missing, and chip in back of head; some faint weathering.

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