Glass jug

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Small jug. Translucent yellow green; handle, foot ring, and trail in same color. Everted rim folded over and in; concave, cylindrical neck; sloping shoulder; piriform body, with side tapering downwards; thick foot ring, applied as a coil; convex bottom, with large jagged pontil scar; strap handle, with thick rib on one side, attached to shoulder, drawn up and out, then turned in at an angle, and folded onto upper neck, with trail ending on edge of rim. Trail applied to base of neck, wound round five times as a tight-packed band, then wound up in a spiral six times, ending under rim. Intact, but one internal crack in body; pinprick and some large, elongated bubbles; slight dulling and pitting, with some soil encrustation between trail threads and on handle on exterior, patches of black weathering and brilliant iridescence 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