Glass square bottle

Glass square bottle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent pale blue green; handle in same color. Broad rim folded out, over, and in, flattened on top; short cylindrical neck, with tooled indent around base; partially concave shoulder with rounded, sloping corners; flat, vertical sides; slightly uneven, concave bottom; broad strap handle, with combed decoration on outer surface, attached to outer edge of shoulder, drawn up vertically, turned in a right-angle and applied in thick fold to neck below rim. Molded decoration on bottom comprising three concentric ridges. Broken and repaired but complete; pinprick bubbles; dulling, pitting, and iridescent weathering.

Greek and Roman Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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.