Glass bottle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent blue green. Rim folded out, over, and in, and pressed into top of broad and deep, conical mouth; cylindrical neck, expanding slightly downward, with tooling marks around base; large, squat globular body; pushed-in bottom, flat at center. Complete, but broken and restored around rim and mouth; few pinprick bubbles; deep pitting with areas of dulling, brilliant iridescence, and thick creamy weathering. There is a tooled ridge running diagonally across on side of mouth, and two large tooled indents on side of upper body.

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