Search Results: Amphora

An amphora (Greek: amphoreus) is a jar with two vertical handles used in antiquity for the storage and transportation of foodstuffs such as wine and olive oil. The name derives from the Greek amphi-phoreus meaning 'carried on both sides'...

Black-figured amphora showing a boxing contest, made in Athens about 550-500 BCE, signed by the potter Nikosthenes, from Agrigento (Sicily). The boxers wearing himantes (leather thongs bound on the fist) are about to exchange blows. The boxer...

A black-figure drinking scene on an amphora. Amphorae are a particular type of storage vessel which were used for the storage and transportation of liquids, mainly wine. They were usually ceramic and can be dated back to the neolithic period...

Attic amphora depicting the departure of a warrior, found at Vulci, attributed to the Dikaios Painter, 510-500 BCE. In the centre, a young warrior stands facing a bearded archer in Phrygian costume, who looks down as if in grief. At his...

Four ceramic amphora stoppers from the Comacchio Shipwreck. 25-1 BCE. Museo della Nave di Comacchio, (photo taken at the National Maritime Museum, Sydney, Australia)

Yangshao hemp-cordmarked amphora, Banpo Phase 4,800 BCE (Neolithic period), Musée national des arts asiatiques - Guimet, Paris, Collection Christian Deydier.

Silver-gilt amphora-rhyton from Kukouva Mogila tumulus, Duvanlii. Early 5th century BCE. National Archaeological Institute with Museum - BAS. Photo: Nikolay Genov in catalogue of the exhibition Los Tracios. Tesoros enigmáticos de Bulgaria...

A black-figure amphora depicting Hercules and an Amazon. Attica, Greece, 6th century BCE. (National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK)

Gold amphora-rhyton from the Panagyurishte treasure. Early 3rd century BCE. Archaeological Museum - Plovdiv. Photo: Oleg Konstantinov.

Silver amphora-rhyton with zoomorphic handles. C. 500 BCE, Vassil Bojkov Collection. Photographer: Marin Karavelov for the Thrace Foundation www.thracefoundation.org