Amphora from Burnstein Azalee Design
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* genuine, original Burnstein Azalee fabrics and design
Amphora from Burnstein Azalee Design offers features designed to make your experience easier, user friendly, and secure. Lifetime warranty on the product. You do not have to worry about losing your investment anymore, because we will redeliver the product to you again, if necessary.
Perms: copy, mod
Prim counts: 02, sculpty
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An amphora (English plural: amphorae or amphoras) is a type of container of a characteristic shape and size, descending from at least as early as the Neolithic Period. Amphorae (gr. ἀμφορεύς) were used in vast numbers for the transport and storage of various products, both liquid and dry, but mostly for wine. It is most often ceramic, but examples in metals and other materials have been found.
The amphora complements the large storage container, the pithos, which makes available capacities between one-half and two and one-half tons. In contrast, the amphora holds under a half-ton, typically less than 100 pounds. The bodies of the two types have similar shapes. Where the pithos may have multiple small loops or lugs for fastening a rope harness, the amphora has two expansive handles joining the shoulder of the body and a long neck. The necks of pithoi are wide for scooping or bucket access. The necks of amphorae are narrow for pouring by a person holding it by the bottom and a handle. Some variants exist. The handles might not be present. The size may require two or three handlers to lift. For the most part, however, an amphora was tableware, or sat close to the table, was intended to be seen, and was finely decorated as such by master painters.
Stoppers of perishable materials, which have rarely survived, were used to seal the contents. Two principal types of amphorae existed: the neck amphora, in which the neck and body meet at a sharp angle; and the one-piece amphora, in which the neck and body form a continuous curve. Neck amphorae were commonly used in the early history of ancient Greece but were gradually replaced by the one-piece type from around the 7th century BCE onwards.
Most were produced with a pointed base to allow upright storage by being partly embedded in sand or soft ground. This also facilitated transport by ship, where the amphorae were tightly packed together, with ropes passed through their handles to prevent breaking or toppling during rough seas. In kitchens and shops amphorae could be stored in racks with round holes in them. Additionally, it seems that the inconvenience of the pointed base was surpassed by its advantage to concentrate solid deposits from the contained liquids (such as olive oil and wines), and those deposits would remain at bottom even during transport.
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FEATURES
* Easy adjust
Allows any user of the Amphora from Burnstein Azalee Design to adjust texture and size of the object.
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