Glass square bottle

Glass square bottle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent light blue, with same color handle. Rim folded out, down, over, and in, and pressed into top of mouth, with beveled and uneven top surface; cylindrical neck, with slight tooling indent around base; shoulder with rounded, sloping corners; flat, vertical sides; slightly concave bottom; strap handle with ribs on either side, attached to outer edge of shoulder, drawn up vertically, turned in an acute angle and trailed onto neck. Intact, except for small weathered chip in side of handle; pinprick and some larger bubbles, one long black impurity streak in shoulder and neck; dulling, iridescence, and some soil encrustation on exterior; areas of soil encrustation, weathering, and brilliant iridescence on interior.

Greek and Roman Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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.