amphora

Sometimes, the shapes in “Pluriverse assembly” suggest familiar objects — a simple light bulb, for instance, or a changing typology of ancient Greek vases, like an amphora or an oenochoe jug.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2024

What he does believe is the pottery was producing the jars were most likely to have been used in the vicinity, unlike the imported amphora.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2024

The show’s title characters also appear on four amphora that were made last year but are roughly crafted to give an illusion of ancientness.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2023

The agave is roasted in large adobe ovens, fermented in slightly porous clay pots called amphora, aged in oak, then twice distilled in copper and steel.

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2022

Annabeth slung her own amphora off her shoulder.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

Then all that remains are the fading memories of golden ages—and the broken shards of discarded amphorae.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2025

This dietary change was linked to the creation of small cups and handled amphorae.

From Science Daily ● May 21, 2024

It is not known what the Roman jars on board would have been used for, although typically amphorae were used to transport goods, such as oil, wine or fish sauce.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2023

Both wine and olive oil, as well as other goods, were usually shipped in amphorae.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

Many of the amphorae were covered with written notations, which indicated previous uses such as storing olives or lentils.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

Javi said he’d affixed ornamental amphoras and delicate clay stars beneath a sweeping arch.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2024

Using underwater vacuums to clear out 1.5 meters of sand, they found over 200 amphoras that still contained ingredients from the Mediterranean diet, like fish sauce, and a variety of olives, dates and figs.

From Reuters ● Sep. 22, 2022

Back and forth from Libya to the south, to Sicily and Rome to the east, sail-driven merchant vessels carried olive oil, cheeses, charcuterie and wine often stored in massive terra-cotta amphoras.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2021

The pots, distant relatives to amphoras and urns, stand on the floor and reach to the viewer’s ribs and higher.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2019

In any other guise, With any but this girlish depth of gaze, Your coming had not so unsealed and poured The dusty amphoras where I had stored The drippings of the winepress of my days.

From The Little Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse