Glass jug

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent light blue green, with same color handle. Rim folded out, over, and in, with beveled upper surface; cylindrical neck; squat, globular body; small, slightly uneven bottom; ribbed handle applied in large pad with claws to upper part of body, drawn up and outward, then folded in and attached in neck below rim with vertical, flat thumb rest above. Intact; many bubbles; some iridescence and weathering on exterior, soil encrustation on interior of neck and iridescent weathering on inside of body.

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