Glass head pendant

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Semi-opaque cobalt blue, with opaque white and yellow, and translucent cobalt blue. Cylindrical with large rod hole at bottom; horizontal rounded edge at back; applied suspension loop on top of head. Applied twisted headband in cobalt blue and white; upper half of face in white, with blue and white stratified eyes, white ears, yellow pendant earrings, and white nose; beard in blue with small mouth in yellow. Broken across face with most of beard missing, and blob on forehead also missing; some dulling, pitting, and weathering, with encrustation inside rod hole. Blue mask with white face, yellow mouth and earrings, 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