| The bright sunlight poured down on the myriad of rocailles, garlands, leaves, amphorae, birds and cupids. |
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| The sea around this area is littered with amphorae, which ancient mariners cast overboard as offerings to the gods. |
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| The large pottery vessels known as amphorae are among the most common finds from the Roman period in excavations, both on land and under the sea. |
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| There are chapters on amphorae, mortaria, and coarse and fine wares, with particular emphasis on Colchester products. |
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| If you have amphorae which you do not wish to use, simply click the arrow icon to end your turn. |
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| In the tomb of Tutankhamen most of the pottery vessels were simple wine jars in the form of amphorae. |
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| In antiquity, amphorae were used to store a variety of precious goods, ranging from wine and oil to coins and jewels. |
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| Chemical analysis of residues in amphorae has proved that many did contain wine and olive oil, as had been assumed, but some contained wheat flour. |
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| Sculptures of Gods and Goddesses made of clay, busts, marble sculptures, silver and bronze coins, golden frames and amphorae are being exhibited. |
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| And again, copper coins, terracotta amphorae, jars and bowls made of terracotta, mosaic fragments and many other findings. |
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| They were passionate about the study of amphorae and have since become professors in their faculty. |
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| Internal wall thickenings in Amphoratheca are better developed and regularly spaced, delineating flask-shaped pseudochambers that resemble ancient Greek amphorae. |
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| On this voyage its cargo was large wine containers called amphorae. |
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| Its traditional wines are made with a particular technique of fermenting and aging in large amphorae. |
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| In the last third of the seventh century, when Byzantium definitively lost its African possessions, ceramics and amphorae from the Aegean and from the east become predominant. |
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| Along with wine, a variety of amphorae demonstrate that olive oil, fish-sauce, and other exotic foodstuffs were imported by the shipload from the Mediterranean. |
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| The white wines which had been fermented in amphorae, displayed a peachy-amber color, a slight cloudiness and rich perfumes. |
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| Thousands of amphorae and pottery shards were brought to the surface and taken back to the Borely Museum and the Roman Docks Museum of Marseilles. |
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| The Bay of Jars in Brazil has been yielding ancient clay storage jars that resemble Roman amphorae for over 150 years. |
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| Dated to c. 1700 bce, finds from the ship included hundreds of large ceramic amphorae that likely contained wine and olive oil, several cooking pots, cups, beak-spouted jugs, storage jars, and numerous fishnet weights. |
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| Grown from volcanic soil and tended manually, with the help of a horse, the grapes are left to ferment in giant amphorae half-buried in the ground. |
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| But when photographs appeared of the guests quaffing from amphorae and feeding each other grapes they seemed to bear out the electorate's worst imaginings of an excessively decadent political caste. |
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| His past achievements are becoming a distant memory, and his recent stunts, such as flying with cranes or diving for ancient amphorae, merely cause irritation. |
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| Archaeology shows it very clearly: the large number of African amphorae and fine ceramics found on every late Roman site in peninsular Italy decreases sharply in the 5th century, and these artifacts vanish in the 6th century. |
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| Hengistbury Head in Dorset was the most important trading site and large quantities of Italian wine amphorae have been found there. |
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| This year's cover features one of the two amphorae, or large urns, that grace the front of the Bank of Canada building on Wellington Street in Ottawa. |
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| You can any or all of your amphorae at the end of your turn. |
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| Moreover, capitals, watercolour paintings, oil lamps, frescoes, amphorae, glasses and jugs as well as a pair of precious gold earrings from the 5th century. |
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| If all 15 amphorae are in play you receive an extra resource card instead. |
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| Are many artefacts found submerged the document, such as the Roman ship of Spargi, sunk around 110 BC. and its precious cargo of amphorae partially recovered. |
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| The amphorae in the Reserve Collection of the Museu Nacional de Arqueologia, contribute today toward the study of a complex pattern of maritime trade routes and comerce in the Roman World. |
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| Also to be exhibited are two Punic amphorae, a lamp, plate and ivory cabochons that were found atop the tomb and with the skeleton. |
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| Grave gifts include the typical globular amphorae and stone axes. |
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| West of the Elbe, some globular amphorae are found in megalithic graves. |
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| Objects representative of the Hellenistic period include black slip pottery, amphorae, bronze sculpture, exquisite gold jewelry, and some extraordinary rhytons. |
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