Glass jar

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent blue green, with trail in same color. Plain, rounded rim, with bevelled inner lip; flaring neck; conical body, rounded at base; deep pushed-in bottom with pontil scar at center. Single horizontal trail wound around top of body, then spiral up to end on neck; on lower body extending onto bottom, nine irregular short ribs. Intact; pinprick bubbles and larger bubbles; patches of dulling, pitting, 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