Glass bottle fragment

Glass bottle fragment

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent blue green; opaque yellow and white trails. Cylindrical, thick-walled neck, tapering at top, flaring at bottom. Spiral marvered yellow trail, with white trail laid over it at bottom of neck. Cut in half with flat sides to rough interior of neck; many bubbles; pitting and slight creamy brown weathering. Probably belonging to an amphoriskos (perfume bottle).

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.