Glass ribbed bowl

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent purple with colorless streaks. Plain vertical rounded and partly uneven rim; convex sides curving in to slightly concave bottom. On interior, three horizontal grooves: one below rim, cut irregularly, the other two in a band around middle of body; on exterior, twenty-eight shallow ribs with flattened tops, set vertically or slightly obliquely, tapering towards bottom and ending at junction of side and bottom. Intact; very few bubbles; some dulling, slight pitting, and numerous patches of iridescent weathering. Rotary grinding marks on interior; some irregular tooling marks in plain band between rim and ribs on exterior.

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