Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent light blue; opaque yellow and white trail; handles and knob base in translucent yellowish green. Inward-sloping rim-disk; thick-walled neck, tapering slightly downward, then expanding to join sloping shoulder; elongated ovoid body, tapering in to pointed bottom, with applied knob base; two strap handles applied to shoulder and upper part of neck. Trails applied at rim, drawn down in a spiral around neck, across shoulder, down body and trailed off at bottom, with plain spiral at top and bottom, but tooled into an even, narrow festoon pattern around sides with 25 upward strokes. Yellow applied first and white overlaid. Broken and repaired around rim and neck with some areas missing; knob base and both handles missing; a few bubbles; slight dulling, pitting, and iridescent weathering. Very narrow opening at base of neck

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