آمفورا
Also known as 🏺, amphorae
thumb|Silver amphora-rhyton with zoomorphic handles, , Vassil Bojkov Collection ([[Sofia, Bulgaria)]]
AI overview
An amphora is a large ancient vessel with two handles, typically used for storing and transporting liquids like wine or oil. These containers are important to archaeologists and historians because they provide evidence about trade, daily life, and craftsmanship in ancient civilizations.
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Key facts
- Artifact.image_caption
- Amphora designed for marine transport, taken from shipwrecks of the Bronze Age, on display in the Museum of Underwater Archaeology at Bodrum Castle, Turkey. The museum archaeologists have devised a rack and roping device to illustrate how the cargo might have been kept from shifting.
- Artifact.image2_caption
- Panathenaic prize amphora in the black-figure style, showing the goddess Athena
- Artifact.material
- Ceramic, a small minority in metal, rare instances in stone or glass
- Artifact.size
- Small-volume container varying from table-top size to half the height of a human, able to be carried by one or more people.
- Artifact.writing
- Sometimes inscribed with an identifying mark, or, in the case of painted ware, the signature of the potter or artist and the names of the characters depicted in the scene.
- Artifact.created
- Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Middle Ages
- Artifact.discovered
- The shards are ubiquitous in any type of archaeological context. The vessels were used primarily to carry wine, which was drunk by all known peoples over Eurasia from at least the Neolithic.
- Artifact.location
- Circum-Mediterranean, Black Sea, Eurasia from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
- Artifact.name