Glass bottle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent pale blue green. Collared rim, with vertical, rounded lip; slender, cylindrical neck, tooled in around base; piriform body; concave bottom. Wheel-abraded decoration on body in horizontal bands; single fine line at top, then band of two fine lines flanking a broader groove, two more fine lines, and a single fine line at point of greatest diameter. Broken and repaired around body with two small holes in side; some elongated, large, and pinprick bubbles; patches of enamel-like weathering and iridescence.

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