Glass bowl with cut decoration

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Colorless. Plain vertical rim with thickened, rounded lip; vertical side to body, curving in to flat bottom, slightly domed on interior. Below rim, one horizontal rounded trail; two more finer trails applied as concentric circles around bottom; on body, two rows of vertical, short, wheel-cut lines, twenty-two in upper row, twenty-one in lower; on bottom, central round cut indent. Broken and repaired, with tiny chips missing; almost all of surfaces covered in dulling, 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