Glass rectangular bottle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent blue green, with same color handles. Rim folded out, down, round, and in, and pressed flat on top around mouth; cylindrical neck, expanding downwards; horizontal shoulder with rounded, sloping corners; flat, vertical sides; concave bottom with large circular pontil mark; two broad strap handles, tooled into three ribs on outer surface, attached to outer edge of shoulder on short sides, drawn up vertically, turned in at right angle and trailed onto top of neck and underside of rim. Molded decoration on bottom comprising a large lozenge enclosing the letters PAVI in retrograde in relief. One large hole in top of body and part of one handle missing with weathered breaks; dulling, iridescence, and thick limy encrustation on exterior; areas of soil encrustation, weathering, and iridescence on interior.

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