Glass beaker with indented sides

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Translucent pale blue green; trail in same color. Everted, thickened, and rounded rim; narrow concave neck; convex curving side expanding slightly downwards, then curving in to tubular base ring, made by folding; kick in bottom with circular pontil mark at center. A single trail wound horizontally around top of body; on body, four large indents, giving square shape to side. Intact; a few bubbles and inclusions; some soil encrustation, creamy weathering, and iridescence. Colorless beaker with indented sides and trail around 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