Glass bottle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent blue green; trails in same color. Everted, slightly thickened, and rounded rim; broad, flaring mouth; cylindrical neck, tooled in horizontally at base; large conical body, curving in below to thick, pushed-in bottom with central jagged pontil ring. On underside of mouth, thick solid single trail; another trail wound round top of body 1 1/2 times; on body, ten bands of wheel-abraded lines, arranged in pairs and set at regular intervals down side. Complete, but broken on one side and repaired with crack running around upper body; many bubbles, some large, a few glassy inclusions in body, and black impurities in trails; faint iridescence, slight whitish weathering on bottom in 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