Glass cup

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Colorless with pale greenish tinge. Uneven, knocked-off rim; flaring collar below rim; carinated sides tapering downward; concave bottom. Cut decoration on sides comprising a fine line immediately below rim, one horizontal wheel-cut groove with fainter lines above 9/16 in. (15 mm) below rim, another with fainter lines below 1 1/4 in. (32 mm) below rim, and a third 2 in. (50 mm) below rim, with a band of fainter lines below 9/16 in. (15 mm) below last groove. Broken and repaired, with one large piece missing from rim; pinprick bubbles; some dulling and slight pitting, but most of surfaces covered in creamy brown weathering and iridescence.

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