Glass jug

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent pale green; handle and trails in same color. Thick, rounded rim; funnel-shaped mouth; slender, conical neck, merging with biconical body; broad, outsplayed base ring; concave bottom, with pontil mark; kick on interior of bottom; three-ribbed strap handle applied to upper body with three long fins, drawn up and outwards, then curved in, and folded onto underside of mouth with a double loop over trail. One thick horizontal trail applied to underside of mouth; another trail wound round middle of neck. Intact, but most of second trail missing; many bubbles; some soil encrustation, dulling, whitish weathering, and iridescence on exterior, more soil encrustation, black 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