Glass jug

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Small, one-handled square jug. Colorless with yellowish tinge; handle in light green. Plain, rounded rim; flaring mouth; cylindrical neck, aslant to body; slightly pushed-in shoulder with large, sloping shoulders; square body with flat sides and rounded lower corners; flat bottom; two-ribbed handle attached to outer edge of shoulder, drawn up, turned in horizontally, and trailed on to top of neck. Intact; pinprick bubbles and some black impurities; dulling, slight pitting, and most of surfaces covered in creamy weathering and iridescence.

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