Glass jar

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent blue green. Rounded, flaring, tubular rim, folded out and down, forming collar around neck; broad ovoid body, tapering sharply downwards; bottom pushed in to form hollow foot ring. Intact; some very large bubblesbubbles and blowing striations; slight brownish weathering and faint iridescence. The jar is recorded as having been found with the mold-blown gladiator cup (81.10.245) that is displayed in the Roman Imperial Art gallery, Gallery 168 on the First Floor.

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