Glass jug

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Colorless with pale blue green tinge; handle in same color. Rim folded out, down, up, and out, forming a downward flange and stepped profile; short cylindrical neck with faint horizontal tooling marks around base; conical body, then curving inwards to low, slightly outsplayed integral foot ring; concave bottom; rod handle attached to top of body with long tail extending down side and pinched to form eight semicircular projections, drawn up, out, and round in a curve, and trailed on to top of neck and outer edge of rim with vertical, flat thumb-rest. Intact; few bubbles; dulling, iridescence, and thick creamy brown weathering, with small areas of soil encrustation. Inside bottle, three large solidified lumps of earth. 91.1.1321 and 91.1.1266 are very similar and may be seen as products of the same workshop. Other examples are known principally from Cyprus (see 74.51.105).

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