Glass jug

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Colorless with pale greyish green tinge; handle in same color. Tubular rim, folded out, down, over, and in, with beveled upper surface forming slight constriction to mouth; cylindrical neck, tapering slightly downwards, with tooled indent around base; conical body with convex curving sides; broad, slightly pushed-in bottom; strap handle, applied in a long, narrow pad on upper body, drawn up and out, then turned in at an acute angle, pressed on to neck under rim, with trail extending down neck. Decoration of wheel-abraded horizontal lines on lower half of body, comprising a single broad line at top, two other lines, and a single, fine line slightly above point of greatest diameter. Intact; few bubbles; dulling, iridescence, and patches of weathering. Squat colorless blown glass jug with wide flat handle and incised lines.

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