Glass cameo cup (scyphus) fragment

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent cobalt blue with opaque white overlay. Rim tapering to rounded vertical lip; tall, slightly convex curving side; part of left side of integral handle with small pointed projection at tip. On interior, fine, deep, horizontal groove immediately below rim; on top edge, another groove cut between rim and handle attachment. Also on exterior, in deep relief in white heavily draped, standing female figure, with head turned to left and proper right arm extended in front of her; to left, small part of a leafy branch. Rim fragment with large chip at right, broken at sides and bottom; dulling, pitting of surface pinprick bubbles, creamy weathering, and 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