Glass beaker with indented sides

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent light blue green. Everted rim, with thickened, rounded lip; side tapering downwards, then bulging outwards at corners, and curving in to tubular foot ring, made by folding; low kick at center of bottom with large circular pontil mark. On lower half of body, four deep round or oval indents, giving square shape to side. Intact; pitting to surface bubbles, slight limy encrustation, and patches of creamy weathering and iridescence. Greenish, with indented 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