Glass jug

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent blue green, with same color handle. Rim folded out, down, round, up and into mouth, with beveled surface; cylindrical neck, slightly expanding downward, with slight tooling marks around the base; sloping shoulder with rounded corners; square body with slightly concave sides; uneven, concave bottom; strap handle with three ribs, applied to edge of shoulder, drawn up vertically, then bent in and down, and attached to neck with backward trail above. Intact, except for one small weathered chip in rim; pinprick and a few larger bubbles, blowing striations; many vertical scratches on sides, and dulling, pitting, and iridescence on exterior, one patch of limy weathering 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