Glass mosaic carinated bowl fragment

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Rim fragment. Translucent light blue appearing green, purple appearing brick red, and opaque yellow. Outsplayed, almost horizontal rim with rounded edge; carinated side, with part of one narrow convex curve, turning sharply downward at bottom. Composite mosaic pattern formed from polygonal sections of a single cane in light blue with an irregular pattern of yellow rods and a central yellow rod surrounded by a red (?) circle. Polished interior; pitting of surface bubbles and deep weathering of circle around central rod on interior; dulling, deep pitting, and iridescent weathering on exterior, outer edge of rim, and 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