Glass jug

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent blue green; handle in same color. Rim folded out, down, round, and in; flaring mouth; slender cylindrical neck, expanding slightly downwards; sloping shoulder; cylindrical body with slightly convex side tapering downwards; bottom with deep central kick and pontil mark; three-ribbed strap handle applied in a broad pad to top of body, drawn up, turned in horizontally, and trailed onto top of neck and underside of mouth, ending on lip of rim. Intact; some pinprick bubbles and one large black inclusion in handle; dulling and faint iridescence on exterior, large patches of soil encrusted weathering and 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