Glass bottle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent greenish blue. Broad rim, folded out, round, and in; flaring mouth; concave neck; sloping shoulder; cylindrical body with almost straight, vertical sides; thick, flattened bottom with circular pontil scar. Intact; some bubbles and blowing striations; deep pitting and iridescence on exterior, with thick gritty encrustation under rim, patches of black enamel-like weathering and some encrustation 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