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408, Two-handled vase (calcite), 1/5. 409, Wine-jar (attenuated form), 1/2. 410, Amphora (calcite). (Tuthmosis III), 2/3. 411, Wine-jar, 2/3 ...
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The Amphora (Αμφορεύς): A tall, two-handled (amphoreus, carrying from both sides) storage vessel for wine, corn, oil, or honey storage. Amphorae were produced in large numbers. More than 1000 amphorae could be on board of a merchant ship and there are cases known where this number was up to 10 times larger.
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To turn now to the Mycenaean pottery in our cargo, the largest of the pots in this group are three (3) plain, two-handled jars of traditional Helladic type (see Fig. 5), which have close parallels in plain or banded Late Mycenaean jars from major centres in the Peloponnese: Prosymna in the Argolid (Blegen 1937, fig.
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A two handled jug produced in the monastery pottery kilns. It is decorated with two bands of incised wavy lines and three bands of incised horizontal bands. ... The tar lined interior of the storage jar typical of wine jars.
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; Etrusco-Corinthian Wine Pitcher ... ; Etruscan Two-handled Drinking Cup ... ; Caeretan Two-handled Water Jar...
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defrutum -i, n. new wine boiled down. ... dicrotum -i, n. a vessel with two banks of oars. ... diota -ae, f. a two-handled wine jar.
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Miss-Charming.com; Serving up Your Ultimate One-Stop Bar & Cocktail Source resource guide. ... 206 BC Five earthenware jars of rice wine are placed in a Han dynasty tomb; 200 BC Sake spreads throughout Japan. ... 19 BC A 20-gallon cone-shaped, two-handled wine jug with reference to King Herod is shipped from Italy.
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Already by the 7th-century B.C.E., the Greek amphora (a large, two-handled Greek wine jar) showed classic mythological heroes, such as Odysseus. The vases of this time are good examples of the Greek focus on motion in a relatively simple design.
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The wine - in two-handled jars known as amphora or pelike ... Water to mix with the wine - in a three-handled hydria ... Drinking vessels of various kinds: the kylix or cup (very shallow, for playing kottabos - see below), the kantharos (two large handles imitating a metal cup), the skyphos (huge - for the professional drinker)
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"Pithoi," as they were called in early Greece, contained olives, wine, molasses, honey, water, and other foodstuffs. Today urns are no longer used as containers but function as decorative objects both indoors and outdoors. ... Miranna Finds offers a wide variety of decorative urns, jars, and amphoras. Each terra cotta urn...
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