Glass amphoriskos (perfume flask) with band of lozenges

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent brownish yellow; handles in cobalt blue. Everted rim, rounded in flame; flaring mouth; cylindrical neck; globular body; slightly oval base, with flat bottom; two rod handles attached in a large pad to shoulder, drawn up, turned in, and pressed onto neck. One continuous mold seam around body and across bottom, extending to base of neck and forming raised line across bottom with a small knob at the center. On body, frieze of sixteen downturned raised tongues on upper body and twenty-one upturned rounded tongues on lower body, joined by a central band of twelve contiguous X-shaped lozenges bordered above and below by two horizontal raised lines. Broken and cracked with one large hole in side; few bubbles; faint iridescence, small patches of creamy white weathering, and some soil encrustation on interior. Yellow molded Sidonian jug with two handles.

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