Glass bowl

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Colorless with translucent purple streak. Uneven, angular, and slightly inverted rim; hemispherical body with straight side, tapering diagonally downward and then curving in ; convex bottom. On interior, two horizontal grooves cut in a band below rim; on exterior, a band of two lightly abraded grooves around bottom with small circle at center. Intact, but many internal strain cracks around side below rim and in bottom; some pinprick bubbles; isolated patches of deep pitting and brownish iridescent weathering. Rotary grinding marks on interior.

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