Glass jug

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent light green; handle, base ring, and trails in same color. Rounded, thickened rim; flaring mouth; cylindrical neck, expanding downwards; sloping shoulder; body with straight side tapering downwards; outsplayed, solid base ring, made by tooling; deep kick and pontil scar on bottom; broad strap handle with five ribs applied to shoulder with long claws extending down to top of body, drawn up and outwards, then turned in, and trailed onto top of neck and underside of mouth with one open loop above. On underside of mouth, a single thick horizontal trail; a fine trail wound unevenly once around upper part of neck. Complete, but with cracks in neck and upper body; many pinprick bubbles; dulling, iridescence, and small patches of limy weathering.

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