Glass bottle with two handles

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent pale blue green; handles, foot ring, and trail in same color. Thick, vertical, cracked-off rim; cylindrical neck; pushed-in shoulder; globular body; applied solid foot ring; flat bottom, slightly pushed-in at center; two three-ribbed strap handles applied to top of body in large pads with downturned fins, drawn up in a circular loop, and attached to neck and underside of collar. Broad, flat collar applied as a coil to neck at midpoint; on body, bands of faint horizontal wheel-cut lines, either as single lines or in groups. Broken and repaired, with numerous cracks and three small losses to side of body; some pinprick bubbles; dulling, iridescence, and creamy brown weathering, with some soil encrustation on inside of neck. Greenish, two handled bottle with handle ridge.

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