Glass jar

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent light blue green; trail in same color. Uneven horizontal rim, partially tubular, folded up and in; broad, outsplayed mouth; short, concave neck; sloping shoulder; squat, bulbous body; deep kick in bottom with pontil scar at center. Trail wound round from left to right in zigzag between outer edge of shoulder and rim, forming openwork collar, with one indent in shoulder where lower end of zigzag was applied too firmly. Body complete, but cracked, and about half of trial missing; many pinprick bubbles; dulling, pitting, patches of limy soil encrustation, 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