Glass amphoriskos with horizontal ribs

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent purple; handles in pale brownish yellow. Rim folded out, over, and in, and flattened into flaring mouth, aslant to cylindrical neck, the lower half of which is indented and bears vertical mold marks in relief below top of handles; ovoid body, tapering to pointed bottom; two handles with two ribs attached to upper body in pads, drawn up and folded onto sides of neck, with trails above. One continuous mold seam around body; mold slightly misaligned. Body decorated with seventeen concentric, horizontal ribs. Intact; some pinprick bubbles; dulling, slight pitting, and faint iridescence on exterior, soil encrustation and iridescent weathering on interior. Purple with yellow handles.

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