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

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

Piper set down her amphora, the tall ceramic wine jar in which her sword was hidden.

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 dates from about the 1st or 2nd Century BC and was found laden with hundreds of amphorae - a type of Roman terracotta jar.

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

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

The articles made by the potter are ordinary circular vessels or gharas used for storing and collecting water, larger ones for keeping grain, flour and vegetables, and surāhis or amphoras for drinking-water.

From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell