Glass jug

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent blue green; handle in same color but with some green streaks. Tubular rim folded out, down, round, and in, and then pressed on to inside of flaring mouth; short, slightly funnel-shaped cylindrical neck, with tooling marks at base; narrow, sloping shoulder; conical body, with convex sides; broad, concave bottom; strap handle applied to shoulder with two rounded claw pads at sides and central rib, drawn up and out, turned in horizontally, drawn up in S shape to form a vertical fold as thumb rest above rim, and then trailed on to outer edge of rim and top of neck. Intact; few bubbles in body but some black and streaks in handle; dulling, weathering, and iridescence, with most of surfaces covered with a limy encrustation.

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