amphora

Preposition: of

• wine: Upon his back he carries a sizable amphora of wine, cracked and weathered but still very much functional and usually full.

Converse of object

• include: The sherds include amphoras, jars, bowls and lids.
• call: Wine and oil are kept in large pottery containers called amphorae.
• contain: One contained an amphora full of reclaimed mosaic pieces, presumably for use by the town's building trade.
• carry: When sunk the Kyrenia was carrying approximately 404 amphorae, filled with wine and oil.

Adjective modifier

• broken: In the foreground is a broken amphora, in the process of being excavated in a house just outside the citadel walls.
• ancient: In some places you can see ancient amphora littering the seabed, in others long submerged cities sleeping beneath the waves.
• large: This involves the excavation, detailed recording and analysis of neonate remains from large amphora dating to 600BC.
• canaanite: Figure 29: ' Round shoulder ' Canaanite amphora in Group 2 from Amarna.
• Greek: It has not been stated in this chronicle that he had large outstanding ears, rather like the handles of a Greek amphora.
• Spanish: Eighteenth century redware sherds and a fragment of Spanish amphora have been recovered from the foreshore in this area.

Modifies a noun

• sherd: What is lacking in both the Hellenistic and Early Roman periods is amphora sherds, both domestic and imported.
• fragment: Several Late Roman 1 amphora fragments were present, from a type probably manufactured on the island.
• type: Students would also be able to use the database to investigate distribution patterns, e.g. of amphora types.
• toe: Many sherds from thick-walled late Roman ribbed storage vessels; also small carinated bowls in burnished black ware, and large amphora toes.

Noun used with modifier

• wine: Finds of wine amphora at Bainbridge Roman Fort imply that life for the Roman soldier had its pleasures.
• transport: There were large amounts of pottery in these sections, particularly tiles and transport amphorae, but also table, utility and cooking wares.
• oil: Olive oil amphorae ( Dressel 20 ) were often stamped with the name of the owner of the estate that produced the oil.
• pottery: To the right the pottery amphora can be seen.