Glass flask

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Small indented flask. Colorless with blue green tinge. Plain, rounded rim; flaring mouth; cylindrical neck;sloping, convex shoulder; sides tapering downward; small, pushed-in bottom, with off-center pontil mark. Seven vertical indents in body, two with pinched protrusions near the bottom. Broken around rim and neck, and repaired, with one hole in mouth; a few large bubbles; patches of dulling, pitting, and iridescent 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