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 Translation for 'amphora' from English to Czech
NOUN   an amphora | amphorae / amphoras
archeol.
amphora {noun}
amfora {f}
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Translation for 'amphora' from English to Czech

amphora {noun}
amfora {f}archeol.
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Usage Examples English
  • Other finds include a counterbalance weight for a steelyard, a piece of glass, and two other amphora types: one a round, or globular amphora known as a costrel, and the other a wider version of the conical type.
  • Some of the innovations included some new Mycenean influenced shapes, such as the belly-handled amphora, the neck handled amphora, the krater, and the lekythos.
  • He produced a series of Panathenaic amphora, which are his only black-figure vases.
  • The Baratti amphora is a silver amphora, possibly from Antioch and dating to the late fourth century AD.
  • The Elgin amphora is slightly different from the Dipylon amphora.

  • The Kleophrades terracotta Panathenaic prize amphora (ca. ...
  • Arslan Eyce Private Amphora Museum, also known as Taşucu Amphora Museum, (...) is a maritime archaeology museum dedicated to amphora in Taşucu, southern Turkey.
  • The scenes are framed like paintings, but the frame widens as the amphora bulges outwards. The background colour of the scenes reappears at the lip and foot of the amphora.
  • An amphora from [...] –530 BC depicts Herakles in the process of completing his tenth labor. Auletes can be seen playing in a procession going around on the neck of the amphora.
  • The "tituli picti" on the Monte Testaccio amphorae tend to follow a standard pattern and indicate a rigorous system of inspection to control trade and deter fraud.

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