Glass Portrait Head of a Woman in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2009

Glass Portrait Head of a Woman
Roman, mold-pressed, first half of the 2nd century AD

Accession # 59.11.8

This portrait, in glass imitating rare and valuable lapis lazuli, was made by pressing glass into an open mold. It probably represents the goddess Juno (Greek Hera), the consort of Jupiter Capitolinus, and must have been set up in either a public temple or a rich private sanctuary.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.