Glass two-handled jar

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent blue green; handles in same color. Everted, slightly tubular rim, with rounded outer lip, folded in and down, and smoothed into side of mouth; broad, cylindrical neck with slightly convex profile and irregular tooling marks around base; bulbous body; shallow concave bottom; two broad three-ribbed strap handles attached to upper body over ribs, drawn vertically upwards, turned in at an acute angle, and applied to neck, ending with fine trails drawn up across underside of rim. On upper two-thirds of body, nineteen vertical ribs of varying length and shape. Intact, but one internal crack in rim; many bubbles, some large in handles; dulling and faint iridescence on exterior, patches of soil encrustation and brownish weathering on interior. Two handled vase with ribs on the body: blue glass.

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