Glass jug

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Colorless with pale green tinge; handle in same color. Solid rim with rounded lip and downward rib below; broad, flaring mouth; short, cylindrical neck; globular body; pushed-in bottom; broad strap handle, decorated on exterior with vertical combed ribs, attached to top of body, drawn up and slightly out, then folded in and down, and trailed on to underside of mouth and top of neck. Broken and repaired with crack running from base of neck, below handle, and around sides; some pinprick and one large bubble in body, many bubbles and a few gritty impurities in handle; some limy encrustation and faint 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