Glass bottle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent light green. Thick, uneven rim, cracked off and ground; funnel-shaped neck; slightly pushed-in shoulder, with outer horizontal ridge; broad, globular body; concave bottom. Body decorated with numerous ribs, extending in a regular spiral pattern from left to right from below ridge on shoulder, becoming fainter, and disappearing on lower part of side. Intact; many pinprick and a few large bubbles, and blowing striations, with one black inclusion in neck; faint iridescence on exterior, large patches of blackish weathering and brilliant iridescence on interior. Round vase with diagonal ribs and long, funnel-shaped neck.

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