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

Goods like olive oil and wine were imported to Britain using large ceramic jars known as amphora, but Romano-Britons "produced their own big jars which could rival this pottery", said Mr Biddulph.

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

She stood twenty feet away, holding her ceramic amphora.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

Instead, archaeologists analysed the shape of the amphorae.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

This 115-foot hill is actually an artificial mound, made up of fragments of millions of clay amphorae.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2025

Over two days at sea this May, the vehicle mapped the site and determined that the amphorae rested in a vessel half-embedded in sediment.

From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2024

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

From Science Daily ● May 21, 2024

During the 1961–1964 excavations, 110 of the amphorae were brought to the surface.

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

She would go and take the hanging amphoras by the neck; she would cool her bosom beneath the broad fans, or perhaps amuse herself by burning cinnamomum in hollow pearls.

From Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert