Glass amphoriskos with vertical ribs

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent greenish yellow; handles in dull pale blue. Uneven, everted rim; flaring mouth; cylindrical neck; globular body; cylindrical base, with uneven, indented bottom; two rod handles attached in a pad to shoulder, drawn up, turned in and down onto neck. One continuous mold seam, slightly misaligned, around body and across bottom, extending to base of neck. On body, twenty-two vertical ribs. Complete, except for chips missing all around rim; pinprick bubbles; faint dulling, iridescence, small patches of whitish weathering and soil encrustation. Yellow body decorated with 22 vertical ribs; two green handles; blown in a two-part mold.

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