Glass jar

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent pale yellow green; trail in same color. Rounded, everted rim with hollow, folded flange below; wide cylindrical neck tapering downwards; pushed-in, almost horizontal shoulder; biconical body; concave bottom with central, thick kick inside and raised circular pontil mark. Single trail wound round from left to right in zigzag between upper section of body and underside of rim, forming openwork collar, with narrow loops at top and pointed fins at bottom; on body, thirteen irregular vertical indents. Intact; pinprick bubbles; dulling, pitting of surface bubbles, patches of soil encrustation and weathering, and some iridescence.

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