Glass square bottle

Glass square bottle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Small, square, one-handled bottle Translucent pale blue green; handle in pale green. Rim folded out, over, and in; cylindrical neck, tapering downward and aslant to body, with tooling marks around base; horizontal, rounded shoulder; uneven, slightly indented sides to body; uneven, rectangular bottom; claw handle applied to sholuder with two large pads extending to top of side, drawn up and out, then turned in horizontally and trailed with upward projecting loop on to edge of rim and top of neck. Unstable on bottom. Intact; some pinprick bubbles in body and elongated bubbles in handle; creamy brown weathering, with dulling and iridescence, covering much of surface.

Greek and Roman Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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.