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

[Paula Lieberman]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William A Wenrich" <wawenri at msn.com>


> 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.

Yep, that's the term, amphora....

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphora
>
> I remembered the name from the Belisarius books.