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Amphora

Objects

A named two-handled Greek storage and transport jar of classical practice. Not a krater, not a Chinese zun, and not a generic jar.

Also known as Greek amphora

Hellenic religion

  • Amphora appears in Hellenic religion.

    Herodotus names the amphora as a jar of measure and transport in Greek and neighboring practice. A named Hellenic vessel in that history, not a Chinese zun and not a generic jar.

    from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

    appears in · sourced · documented

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