Fragment from the neck of a terracotta amphora (jar)

Fragment from the neck of a terracotta amphora (jar)

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Panel with quadruped The animal has been identified as a lion, which would have been known to the Cypriot artist only through representations, many of them undoubtedly Near Eastern. It is interesting that the body bears the same lozenge pattern as one of the figures on the amphora fragment 74.51.5861.

Greek and Roman Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Fragment from the neck of a terracotta amphora (jar)Fragment from the neck of a terracotta amphora (jar)Fragment from the neck of a terracotta amphora (jar)Fragment from the neck of a terracotta amphora (jar)Fragment from the neck of a terracotta amphora (jar)

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.