Glass lentoid amphoriskos

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent greenish yellow; handles in a slightly greener color. Tubular rim, folded out, over, and in, with irregular inner lip; flaring mouth; cylindrical neck; lentoid body; small circular base with rounded edges and flat bottom; two rod handles of unequal length applied to shoulder in pads (one also with part of trail attached to lower neck), drawn up, tooled in, and pressed onto neck below top of handle. One continuous mold seam around body and across bottom, extending to base of neck, slightly misaligned and forming a ridge across bottom. On each side of body, a six-petaled rosette in raised outline, bordered by two concentric raised bands. Intact, except for small, slightly weathered chip in rim; many pinprick bubbles and a few white impurities; dulling, faint iridescence, and patchy weathering on exterior, encrustation, whitish weathering and brilliant iridescence on interior. Sidonian vase of yellow glass.

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