amphoras

I suspect the amphoras won't have kept the wine intact for that long; after all, the ship is 2200 years old.

They weren't shipping little 20oz amphoras enmasse, no they were carrying 41 quarts...

Greek amphoras for wine or oil, Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums but you know they were made to be used.

You're surely aware of ancient wrecks filled with amphoras?

Their Amphoras gave away their origins long ago.

And the amphoras themselves are ceramic and might not be completely tight at those pressures, meaning sea water might be able to get in, and eventually replace the wine.

> Monte Testaccio in Rome looks like a natural hill, but it’s an immense pile of broken oil amphoras (tall jars), which were used only once to prevent rancidness.

Saw a documentary about Gauls where they reshaped the view on what was said to be a simple civilisation (~hunters) where in fact they had a non trivial economy based on manufacture of goods (amphoras) backed by recent discovery of burried factory remains.

We can spend twice as much transport pollution in order to ship our drinks in clay amphoras that weigh almost as much as their contents, as Romans did; and we can carry around flasks from slaughtered animals instead of recycled plastic.

They didn't fully understand how fermentation worked, the pine pitch the used to seal the amphoras leeched into the wines, and they typically attempted to hide the bad character of the wines by watering it down and then adding all kinds of sweet and spicy additives to it.

Early scripts tend to be logographic for this reason, if you mostly write stuff like "Ten Amphoras of wine" then a symbol which means "Amphora of wine" seems pretty much as useful as a way to write numbers.