Glass bottle shaped like a date

Glass bottle shaped like a date

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent yellowish brown. Thick, uneven rim, slightly everted and folded round and in; cylindrical neck, pushed down into body, forming hollow shoulder; uneven, cylindrical body; rounded but lopsided bottom. One continuous mold seam around body, extending to top of neck. Body molded into the shape of a wrinckled date, but with pattern of more regular vertical ridges and hollows. Broken and repaired, with six holes remaining in body; dulling, pitting, creamy white weathering, and brilliant iridescence.

Greek and Roman Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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.