amphora
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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
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
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Ancient Greece - Introductory
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