Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent honey brown with same color handles and base-knob; trails in opaque white and opaque yellow. Horizontal rim with rounded edge and radiating tooling marks on top surface; tall slender cylindrical neck; broad sloping shoulder, slightly concave below handles; ovoid body; coiled base-knob applied to pointed bottom; two vertical handles applied to shoulder, drawn up in a curve, then turned in and down, and attached to top of neck and underside of rim. White trail applied on neck, wound spirally around and drawn down across shoulder to body; another yellow trail applied to top of body in a band over the white and tooled into a zigzag pattern with close-set vertical indents around top of body; the white trail continues as a zigzag band below, and then as a horizontal line around center of body. Intact; dulling, pitting, and faint iridescence.

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