What is "amphoras"

Usage examples of "amphoras".

Ortiz mentions divers occasionally find Roman and Greek amphoras in the waters off Brazil, bucking the idea that pre-Columbian civilizations did not visit the Americas.

You know this stuff better than I do from your research-how did they use these amphoras?

Every one of these amphoras, let alone their contents, was an ancient artifact that under differ­ent circumstances would have had Murphy, or any archaeolo­gist, doing cartwheels.

Pitt began slowly, "there is a trail of amphoras scattered along the seabed that leads into the fjord?

The companions strolled past watermelons, parrots on perches, flowers and herbs dried and fresh, fragrant leather wallets and purses and saddles, burning samples of incense, billowing fabric, fluttering kites of paper and silk, stacked amphoras of wines, wicker cages of squawking chickens, fish strung by the gills on poles, and pastries soaked in honey and twisted into gazelle's horns and serpents and trumpets.

On a small cobbled plaza before the dome, Shar's few elderly priests had propped a huge iron dish on stone uprights, filled it with amphoras of black rock oil, and ignited the pool.

They guzzled looted wine from amphoras and poured it over one another's laughing heads.

The ship's ready stores were kept in amphoras, pottery jars whose narrow bases were sunk in a sand table to keep them upright while the ship rolled.

Though one got used to the resins and honey added to amphoras to preserve wines for hard travelling.

One room was untenanted, and was furnished with no apparatus, other than three great bottles of clear, uncolored glass, taller than a tall man, and having somewhat the form of Roman amphoras.

Over their heads they hoisted red clay amphoras stoppered with wood and beeswax, then grunted as they heaved the long jars over the barricade.

Pilgrims grabbed more amphoras handed them by women in the second line.

Ortiz mentions diversoccasionally find Roman and Greek amphoras in the waters off Brazil,bucking the idea that pre-Columbian civilizations did not visit theAmericas.