Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Rim fragment. Translucent turquoise blue largely appearing green, purple appearing opaque deep brick red, and yellow, with colorless glass. Applied coil rim with rounded, vertical lip; side curving in downward. Rim in colorless glass with single yellow spiral thread; body decorated with fine vertical bands, forming a regular pattern: colorless with double spiral yellow threads, red, green, blue, yellow with central dark stripe, yellow, green, red, yellow with central dark stripe, green, yellow with dark stripe, red, colorless with double spiral yellow threads. Pinprick bubbles; exterior polished, with slight surface pitting; iridescent weathering on interior and 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