Glass jar

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Colorless with pale blue green tinge. Uneven horizontal rim, with rounded tubular edge, folded out, down, and in, forming collar around neck; ovoid body; concave bottom. Intact, but internal cracks around rim; large and pinprick bubbles, with yellow green impurity streak in rim; some dulling, slight pitting and iridescent weathering, but much of exterior and interior covered with thick limy encrustation and creamy brown weathering.

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