Glass pendant shaped like a jug

Glass pendant shaped like a jug

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent deep green, appearing black, with handle in same color; trail in opaque white. Lentoid, oval body; thick rounded rim; cylindrical neck; heavy rod handle applied over trail to side of body, drawn up vertically, then turned in, and attached to rim; small vertical hole runs through body from rim to bottom. On neck, spiral ribbing; on body, irregular vertical zigzag trail, pressed into body. Intact except for base; dulling, pitting, and slight iridescent weathering. The flattened, lentoid shape of the jug is unusual.

Greek and Roman Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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.