Glass hemispherical ribbed bowl

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent pale blue-green. Slightly flaring rim with angular top edge and inward-sloping band below; convex side curving in to uneven flat bottom. On interior, band of two fine horizontal grooves on lower part of side; on exterior, twenty-seven long, slender ribs, some vertical, others slanting, with flattened tops, tapering downwards and extaneding onto outer edge of bottom. Intact, but one long crack running from rim down side; many pinprick and one large bubble; patches of deep pitting, dulling, creamy brown weathering, and iridescence. Cast, with ribbed sides.

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