Glass bottle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent blue green. Thick everted rim, folded in and pressed flat on top, forming inner lip to mouth; cylindrical neck, expanding downwards; slightly concave shoulder; large globular body; pushed-in bottom. Wheel-abraded decoration in parallel horizontal bands around body, comprising two broad bands around upper body, six narrower lines aroudn center, and a single broad band around lower body. Intact; some pinprick and elongated bubbles; dulling and faint limy weathering on exterior, iridescent weathering on interior. Greenish blown glass vase with slender neck.

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