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amphora

[am-fer-uh] / ˈæm fər ə /
NOUN
large jug
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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

Greg could see on his desk a notepad where he had drawn what looked like an amphora with an X over it and written “ick topic pregnancy???”

From Washington Post ● Oct. 26, 2022

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

How exactly had the tiger pushed over the amphora of wine?

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks

In this case, the cargo included large ceramic storage vessels or amphorae which once contained products from regions of the eastern Mediterranean.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

The team is now working to find out exactly what was being carried in 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

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

Among this people are found cups with handles, jugs, jars, long platters, and plates of earthenware, as well as amphoras of different colours for keeping water fresh.

From De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera by Francis Augustus MacNutt


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