And the handsome curly-headed slave, who resembled Antinous, unsealed over his head a slender amphora containing the costliest Arabian cassia.
It is an amphoraof large dimensions, ornamented in part with geometrical designs, in part with compartments, in which are represented horses and birds.
The form, the designs, and the general physiognomy of the amphora are considered to be in close accordance with Athenian vases of the most antique school.
The noble amphora from Curium, figured by Di Cesnola,[7124] contains above forty representations of horses, and nearly as many of birds.
He gazed upon her with emotion, as the precious amphora destined to be the receptacle of his thought.
Standing on the table was an amphora of gilt pasteboard which fostered this illusion.
And if the amphora is really destined for me, if you will allow it, my father shall not remove the pitch wig from its venerable head, till Arsinoe is mine once more!
Kenkenes swept the jewels as if they had been almonds into an empty amphora and returned it to the rack.
She went to the amphora and poured water into the laver, drew forth from the box a horn comb and a vial of powdered soda from the Natron Lakes, and proceeded with her toilet.
She lowered the amphora into the rack and took up the linen band the ape had slipped.
The hairy creature in the corner, tethered to the amphora rack, slipped his collar and followed her.
A long amphora stood in a tamarisk rack in one corner; a linen napkin hung, pinned to the tent-cloth, over it; a glazed laver and a small box sat beside it.
The lamp burned behind a wooden amphorarack and the interior of the stone chamber was not dark.
As Cleve states, Cymbella and Amphora are forms of Navicula "with both valves similar and asymmetrical along the longitudinal axis," and the difference between Cymbella and Amphora is in the "degree of asymmetry.
Amphora in which the valves appear in zone view with the median nodules of both valves on the same side.
Cleve divides the genus into a number of groups as follows: Amphora proper.
An amphora stands on the ground on each side of the figure.
Sepulchral cippus of Anaxicrates with an amphora carved in low relief.
Fragment from the top of a sepulchralamphora in relief, with patterns of foliage.
Body of sepulchral amphora of Timophon, of Anagyrus, with ornate flutings, and a horizontal band of interwoven fillets.
A troop of thin brown Arab girls filled their tallamphora whilst washing in the pond.
Fear fell upon the girls, and one advancing, holding the skirt of her long shift between her teeth to veil her face, poured water from her amphora upon the fish.
One might very well, therefore, have given him this epitaph:-- Hic jacet amphora vini.
Skirts--already as short and as narrow as possible--were to be even narrower; the Alpha and Omega of perfection would be represented by the Amphora Silhouette.
Prefect, I am sorry for you, but the amphora is mine.
And whoever guesses right, or whoever has already tasted this wine, shall have an amphora from me as large as this.
It is a kind of amphora though the two handles are nearly worn away.
One of the best examples of late pottery is the delicately-shaped and well-preserved amphora discovered by Koldewey at Babylon,[159] but it must probably be assigned to the Roman period.
In the background is a naked but likewise bearded individual, who is seated beside a large amphora with the contents of which he appears to be entirely preoccupied; he is presumably performing culinary operations of some kind.
The worthy merchant began to repent his choice, as amphora after amphora was pierced and emptied.
A pithos is a description of earthen vessel or jar, distinguished from the amphora by its large mouth, and comparatively flattened base.
A little in front of the ilex-trees she stopped to look back upon the shepherd, leaning the amphora upon her naked hip.
Footnote 343: That any man could drink an amphora of wine at a draught, is beyond all credibility; for theamphora was nearly equal to nine gallons, English measure.
The tumulus of Hanai-Tepeh covered over a huge amphora in which crouched a skeleton, and the wealthy Japanese loved to know they would rest in huge artistically decorated vases, masterpieces of native pottery.
They are constructed with small pointed pebbles, with no trace of cement, and resemble in shape a long amphora vase, or perhaps, to be more accurate, the clapper of a bell.
In the scene on the neck of this amphora appears a priestess followed by four maidens who bear upon their heads a long chest.
The amphora which is now in the Museum of Fine Arts at Boston is published by De Ridder in B.
The amphora just referred to is a Boeotian fabric, but that fact does not nullify the importance of its bearing upon the problem in hand.
Substitute for the amphora a vessel of glass or earth, with a tube running from the top and hanging in the air, into which the vapour may fall and condense.
Put your amphora into a horse’s belly instead of the dung, and proceed as above.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "amphora" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
