Glass beaker

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent yellowish green; blobs in translucent deep turquoise blue. Uneven outsplayed and cracked-off rim; cylindrical body, then curving in to slightly pushed-in bottom. Around body, horizontal band of blobs comprising three larger blobs interspersed with smaller ones arranged as two rows of six and one of seven; three extra small blobs accidentally applied, two above and one below band; above and below blobbed decoration, a single horizontal wheel-abraded line. Intact; pinprick and larger bubbles; dulling, slight pitting, enamel-like brown weathering, and some soil encrustation.

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