Glass jug

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Colorless with pale blue green tinge; handle in same color. Plain rounded rim with thickened, beveled fold below; broad, flaring mouth; slender, cylindrical neck with tooling indent around middle and expanding downward below; horizontal shoulder curving to join imperceptibly with large bulbous body; concave bottom; strap handle applied to shoulder, drawn up and out, turned in horizontally, drawn up and tooled to form pointed backward projecting thumb rest above, and then trailed on to rim and underside of mouth. Broken, with many cracks, one part of rim and mouth missing, two holes in shoulder, and four small holes in body; some pinprick bubbles; pitting, dulling, and iridescence with creamy weathering on interior.

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