Glass jug

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent green with blue tinge; handle in same color. Collared rim, folded over, down, round, and up, with a slight flaring outer lip, pressed back onto top of mouth in front of handle; cylindrical neck, expanding slightly downwards, with tooling indent at base around top of body; squat globular body; thick, pushed-in bottom, forming high dome on interior, with central pontil scar; broad, 3-ribbed handle applied to upper body, drawn up vertically, then turned in horizontally and trailed on to underside of rim and top half of neck. Complete but one crack in rim and inside of mouth; pinprick and larger bubbles, with many bubbles and some black impurities in handle; slight encrustation and weathering on exterior, patches of encrustation and iridescent weathering on interior.

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