Glass jug

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent blue green; handle in same color. Everted rim, with rounded outer lip, folded in and down, and smoothed into side of mouth; broad, funnel-shaped neck; narrow, sloping shoulder; bulbous body with side tapering downwards; shallow concave bottom, with two shallow oval dimples at center; a broad, plain handle attached to upper body over ribs, with horizontal tooling marks on flattened lower edge, drawn up in a curve, with tooling marks on underside, and applied to rim, with slight overhang and two rounded vertical projections above; handle flanked by two extensions along outer edge of rim, tooled into vertical ridges (four to left of handle, five to right). On body, sixteen spiral ribs of varying length and shape, running from right to left. Intact, except for the outermost ridge to right of handle; few bubbles, some blackish streaks in rim; slight dulling and faint iridescence, with patches of limy encrustation and weathering. Jug with diagonal ribs on the body; the upper attachment of the handle is spiked.

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