[LMB] Ages, (or Little House with Green Gables in Oklahoma) mostly OT:

[William A Wenrich]

Paula Lieberman wrote:
>ships in the Mediterranean 
>used clay vessels for containing liquids and even solid stuff (I can't 
>remember the name of the two-handed big made-of-clay vessels found in large

>quantity in the oldest ancient shipwrecks found on the bottom of the 
>Mediterranean).

Amphorae or amphoras were long necked ceramic vessels that were used for
transporting and storing grapes, olive oil, wine, oil, olives, grain, fish,
and other commodities.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphora

I remembered the name from the Belisarius books.
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William A. Wenrich
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