Glass beaker

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent dark green; trails in translucent turquoise blue. Rounded, slightly thickened rim; funnel-shaped neck; square body, with convex curving edges; outsplayed low applied base ring; concave bottom with pontil scar at center. Each side of body with large tooled indent and pointed kick on interior; trail in relief wound once round base of neck, and another trail wound 1½ times around undercurve of body. Two large holes in body, but otherwise complete; some pinprick bubbles; slight dulling and faint weathering

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