Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Interior, the smaller fragment has part of the head and neck of a rider to right, wearing a chlamys and part of the mane, neck, and head of a horse to left; the larger fragment has the front legs of the horse and the left foot of the rider; Exterior, the smaller fragment has part of an animal paw or toes?; below, meander; the larger fragment has at the left, the handle root and tendrils from the handle palmette; part of a draped male to right; frontal toes of the right foot of a second figure; below, meander

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