Amphora

Type of storage container AmphoraAmphora designed for marine transport, taken from shipwrecks, dating to the Roman period, 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.Panathenaic prize amphora in the black-figure style, showing the goddess AthenaMaterialCeramic, a small minority in metal, rare instances in stone or glassSizeSmall-volume container varying from table-top size to half the height of a human, able to be carried by one or more people.WritingSometimes 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.CreatedNeolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Middle AgesDiscoveredThe shards are ubiquitous in many types of ancient and medieval Mediterranean archaeological contexts. The vessels were used primarily to transport wine, which was drunk by all known peoples over Eurasia[citation needed] from at least the Neolithic.Present locationCircum-Mediterranean, Black Sea, Eurasia from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Silver ampho