amphorae

Smaller allongated amphorae (the form most people think of when amphorae are mentioned)could see reuse as roofing tile, however they didn't hold the same volume.

The wine inside the amphorae is an uncompressible liquid.

Roman amphorae found in South India tell us something about long distance trade in the classical world.

Monte Testaccio is maar up of globular amphorae of the type Dressed 20 (link at the end).

A minor nitpick from the article as the author writes that amphorae were used only for liquids like wine.

If you're transporting goods, you want it in containers; and amphorae were the shipping containers (quite literally) of that time.

Water pressure at that depth would break the seals on all the amphorae before the wreck even hit the bottom.

If people are loading dozens of amphorae of wine on ships and transporting them from place to place, that's an industry.

He certainly didn't risk getting himself into another cold war by fishing out those amphorae!

This is the guy who goes on his third ever scuba dive on the news and brings back museum quality amphorae.

It used to be that people stored wine in big clay jars -pithoi (singular pithos) and amphorae- when glass bottles were very rare.

To give a concrete example of this, fragments of Roman amphorae (wine vessels) are pretty common and not super valuable unless they're very unusual.

Ober describes them memorably as “violence specialists”, just as they were craftsmen of amphorae or viticulturists, haha.

There are unfortunately enough unscrupulous antiquities collectors, that one can estimate “market value” of Roman amphorae, jewelry, and other items.

I did think that it was odd for the title to state "wine jars" instead of amphorae.

> The nearly 800 pieces “of exceptional rarity and inestimable value”, including stelae, amphorae and other items, came from clandestine excavations in Puglia, in Italy’s south-eastern tip, according to the carabinieri in charge of cultural heritage.