Glass jug

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Colorless with light green tinge; same color handle and trails. Plain, rounded rim; flaring mouth; short cylindrical neck, expanding downwards and joining imperceptibly with biconical body; outsplayed tubular foot rim, made by folding; deep kick in bottom, with large jagged pontil scar; four-ribbed strap handle, applied to body just above greatest diameter, with claws extending downwards, the two outer ones being larger and each tooled to have a pinched, horizontal projection; handle drawn out and up, curved in, and folded onto underside of mouth and edge of rim, with one hollow roll, on top of trail. A thicker trail wound slightly more than once around underside of mouth; another thinner trail wound six times in a spiral around neck. Body intact, but top of handle broken and repaired below hollow roll (with alien piece of glass); bubbles and blowing striations; some soil encrustation, especially around neck, slight dulling, whitish weathering, and brilliant 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