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- noun Plural form of
amphora .
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Examples
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But it is flattering that Boris dives deep into the sea to bring me conch shells and necks of two-thousand-year-old amphoras, which should sit in museums instead of the pockets of my backpack.
A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010
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To wit, she crafts precious rubies and emeralds into modern day Evil Eyes and gold amphoras.
Meredith Barnett: Dear Santa: Temple St. Clair's Holiday Give and Get List Meredith Barnett 2010
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But it is flattering that Boris dives deep into the sea to bring me conch shells and necks of two-thousand-year-old amphoras, which should sit in museums instead of the pockets of my backpack.
A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010
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The boat cruised between islands of green until it came to the Sunken City, 2000 years old under the sea, where we could peer into the glass of the boat's bottom and see broken clay amphoras.
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The Romans exported an estimated 40 million amphoras of wine about 2.64 million gallons to Gaul in the first century B.C. and got back in return perhaps as many as fifteen thousand slaves a year.
The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009
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The Romans exported an estimated 40 million amphoras of wine about 2.64 million gallons to Gaul in the first century B.C. and got back in return perhaps as many as fifteen thousand slaves a year.
The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009
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The Romans exported an estimated 40 million amphoras of wine about 2.64 million gallons to Gaul in the first century B.C. and got back in return perhaps as many as fifteen thousand slaves a year.
The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009
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The Romans exported an estimated 40 million amphoras of wine about 2.64 million gallons to Gaul in the first century B.C. and got back in return perhaps as many as fifteen thousand slaves a year.
The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009
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Flyover from the virtual reality model of the Kyrenia shipwreck showing the lowest level of amphoras and millstones
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Most "amphora wrecks" are just that, wreck sites marked by the piles of amphoras (the ceramic vessels commonly used in the classical world to transport wine and oil), but containing little or no evidence of the ship that carried them.
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