Glass cameo cup (scyphus) fragment

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent cobalt blue with opaque white overlay. Body fragment of large cup with lower projecting part of applied handle. On exterior, below handle frontal head of satyr, with hair in tufts above forehead and to sides with proper left pointed ear, prominent eyebrows, broad flat nose, and pursed lips; to right of handle, panpipes suspended from leafy foliage. Broken with weathered edges; pitting of surface bubbles, dulling, and patches of creamy iridescent weathering.

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