Shape
Amphora
ἀμφορεύς
13375 vases
The quintessential Greek storage vessel — two handles, a narrow neck, and a broad body. Used for wine, olive oil, and grain. Panathenaic amphorae, filled with olive oil, were the prizes at Athens's greatest festival.
Function & Use
Storage and transport of wine, oil, and grain
13375 examples
Terracotta fragment of a neck-amphora(jar)
second half of the sixth century BCE
Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)?
late 6th/early 5th centuries BCE
Spiral Amphora
700-600 BCE
Terracotta neck-amphora
BF
early 7th century BCE
Terracotta neck-amphora (storage jar)
ORI
Attributed to the New York Nessos Painter
· second quarter of the 7th century BCE
Amphora
ORI
7th century BCE
AMPHORA, NECK, FRAGMENTS (PROTOATTIC, BLACK-FIGURE)
BF
RAM JUG P
· -675 TO -625
Amphorabruchstück (Frühattische Amphora (modern ergänzt))
675-650 v. Chr.
Terracotta spiral amphora (jar)
ORI
ca. 675–650 BCE
Funerary amphora
about 670–650 B.C.
Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)
540–530 BCE
Terracotta fragments of amphorae (jars)
530–520 BCE
Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)
510–500 BCE
Terracotta fragments of amphorae (jars)
6th century/early 5th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)
6th century/early 5th century BCE
Terracotta fragments of amphorae (jars)
6th century/early 5th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)
late 6th/early 5th centuries BCE
Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)
early 5th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)
last quarter of the 6th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)
last quarter of the 6th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)
late 6th/early 5th centuries
Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)?
second half of the 6th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)
last quarter of the 6th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)
530–520 BCE
Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)
late 6th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)
540–530 BCE
Terracotta fragment of a neck-amphora (jar)
510 –500 BCE
Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)
530–520 BCE
Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)?
6th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)
530–520 BCE
Terracotta fragment of a neck-amphora (jar)
late 6th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a neck-amphora (jar)
late 6th/early 5th centuries BCE
Terracotta fragment of a neck-amphora (jar)
550–525 BCE
Terracotta fragments of an amphora (jar)
530–520 BCE
Terracotta fragment of a neck-amphora (jar)
last quarter of the 6th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)
540–530 BCE
Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)
520–510 BCE
Terracotta fragments of amphorae (jars)
6th century/early 5th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a neck-amphora (jar)
late 6th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a neck-amphora (jar)
last quarter of the 6th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a neck-amphora (jar)
third quarter of the 6th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a neck-amphora (jar)
last quarter of the 6th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a neck-amphora (jar)
third quarter of the 6th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a neck-amphora (jar)
late 6th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a neck-amphora (jar)
540–530 BCE
Terracotta fragment of a neck-amphora (jar)
late 6th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)
550–540 BCE
Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)
530–520 BCE
Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)
550–540 BCE
Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)
550–540 BCE
Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)
530–520 BCE
Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)
last quarter of the 6th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)
third quarter of the 6th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of an neck-amphora (jar)
last quarter of the 6th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)?
6th century BCE
Terracotta fragments of a Panathenaic prize amphora
first quarter of the 5th century BCE
Terracotta fragments of an amphora (jar)
540 BCE
Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)
6th/5th centuries BCE
Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)
third quarter of the 6th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)
third quarter of the 6th century BCE
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