The AMPHORAS Project

This site contains information on plain, unglazed, ceramic storage containers, with two handles, mostly pointed at the bottom, used to carry wine, oil, fish, and other commodities around the ancient Mediterranean. AMPHORAS is making available part of the archive collected by Virginia R. Grace at the excavations of the Agora at Athens, as well as some additional materials. Included are:

a bibliography of scholarly work on finding, identifying, and studying Greek and Roman amphoras and the trade they carried
passages in ancient Greek literature on the use of amphoras (quoted in English).
translations into English of works (or parts of works) published in Russian on amphoras
links to other Web sites with amphora information and/or images (excavations, wrecks, etc) and other sources of bibliography
searches of the bibliography files and the text of other files. Use '@' for and, '.' for any letter (wr.ck@mahdia): see Notes on searching.

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Data on Amphoras

We are constructing a searchable database of descriptions and stamp readings of published Greek (and some Roman) amphoras, including some illustrations. These are organized by finding-place, and can be searched by specifying place of manufacture, names, devices, or other data in stamps, etc. Some material from Athens and Corinth is available.

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Email addresses:
Carolyn G. Koehler, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Philippa MW Matheson, Toronto

Note: neither the University of Toronto nor the CHASS facility is in any way responsible for the contents of the material made available here by the AMPHORAS Project.