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In Roman times the amphora was used as a unit of liquid measure containing 2 urnae, 8 congii, or 48 sextarii.
All of the preserved skeletal material was recovered from the burial amphora itself and not from the associated pyre deposits.
And at a site called the Canyons we came across what appeared to be the lip and handle of an amphora.
There is a scene drawn on the body of the amphora, of two wreaths of lotus blossoms and palmettos on the amphora's body.
He is an accomplished diver who grows flowers in an amphora he retrieved from the deep.
Archaeologists have found the crushed remains of an amphora, a large ceramic jar, containing hundreds of fish bones.
The cup was discovered in 1917 in Turkey, within an amphora at the foot of an early Bronze Age tumulus.
To use an amphora at the end of your turn, click on the urn to the left of your name.
All publications of amphora stamps must include an index mentioning fabricants, eponyms, months and emblems.
They paired the gravitas of ancient amphora with the strident lines of a computer-controlled machinery.
And by the time the last American troops pulled out in 2011, the Iraqi amphora might not have looked like new.
But we do know about various containers for transport used for the commonly eaten foodstuffs, especially the amphora, which had pointed bottoms.
Olive oil, wine and exotic fruits from the Mediterranean area were the foods most commonly imported in amphora.
Her right hand shields her pubic area, while her left arm is raised at the elbow and her left hand holds a piece of drapery that falls onto an amphora.
Beside the swords lay a bundle of about a dozen 2ft long socketed iron spearheads, and overlying the whole group of objects were large chunks of a broken amphora.
The amphora will travel through the Towns hit by the earthquake to join the Mediterranean water which will arrive from every participating Country wet by the sea.
Also among the interesting discoveries distinguish big swords with leaves of gold, ivory, cupreous decorative from Cyprus and amphora with representation of one of holy top and wild beasts.
The principal Roman capacity measures were the hemina, sextarius, modius, and amphora for dry products and the quartarus, sextarius, congius, urna, and amphora for liquids.
The jar, shaped like an amphora, belongs to the group of so-called Alhambra vases characterised by a swelling body, a neck with protruding lip and wide flat handles.
Two-handled clay pots, the amphora, were primarily used as containers for foodstuffs from the Mediterranean area on their way to customers throughout the Empire.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It was equal to one-third of the amphora, and therefore to nearly two gallons English.
It was the custom to write the age of the wine and the vintage on the amphora, or cask.
She was there, in the sun and surrounded by vermin, as pure as an amphora, fragrant as a flower.
The 6th vase on the shelf of the entrance wall is the kind of amphora called a Pelice, from cre.
This potsherd had in my judgment, once been a part of an ordinary amphora of medium size.
The psykter, or wine-cooler, was a double-walled vessel of the amphora type, rotund in shape.
Your idea, Symphorien, seems to be to drain that amphora to the very bottom.
Standing on the table was an amphora of gilt pasteboard which fostered this illusion.
It also wants the raised bands which in C. amphora pass from the sides of the mouth to the apex of the avicularium in front.
I should say an amphora, which is a Greek word and more high-sounding.
And clapping the amphora to his lips, he drained it at one draught.
Nay, belike the amphora will be made hot for one or the other.
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