Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Body fragment. Translucent blue, turquoise blue, purple appearing opaque brick red, turquoise blue appearing green, opaque yellow, and white, with colorless glass. Side curving in sharply to flat bottom. Decorated with vertical bands, forming a regular pattern: turquoise blue, red, blue layered with white, blue with single white spiral thread, green, yellow, green, blue with single white spiral thread, blue, red, blue, and turquoise. A few pinprick bubbles; exterior polished, with pitting of surface bubbles; dulling, pitting, iridescence, and creamy weathering on interior; some iridescent weathering on jagged edges.

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