Glass flask

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Colorless. Plain, ground rim; funnel-shaped neck, with horizontal indent around base; piriform body; small, slightly concave bottom. On neck and body, bands of horizontal cut lines, arranged singly, in pairs, and in groups; three bands on neck and six on body. Body complete, but broken on neck, with part of rim and neck missing, and some internal cracks in body; pinprick and elongated bubbles, and blowing striations; patches of soil encrustation, milky 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