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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 893 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AMPHORA (a Latin word from Gr. aµdopeus, derived from See also:awl* on both sides, and OpeLv, to See also:bear)  , a large big-bellied See also:vessel used by the See also:ancient Greeks and See also:Romans for preserving See also:wine, oil, See also:honey, and fruits; and in later times as a cinerary See also:urn . It was so named from usually having an See also:ear or handle on each See also:side of the See also:neck (diota) . It was commonly made of earthenware, but sometimes of See also:stone, See also:glass or even more costly materials . Amphorae either rested on a See also:foot, or ended in a point so that they had to be fixed in the ground . The older amphorae were See also:oval-shaped, such as the vases filled with oil for prizes at the Panathenaic festival, having on one side a figure of See also:Athena, on the other a See also:representation of the contest; the latter were tall and slender, with voluted handles . The first class exhibits See also:black figures on a reddish background, the second red figures on a black ground . The See also:amphora was a See also:standard measure of capacity among both Greeks and Romans, the See also:Attic containing nearly nine gallons, and the See also:Roman about six . In See also:modern See also:botany it is aexpressed in the See also:form f 0s/iN2 sine cb d4 . The hyperbolic or Gudermannian See also:amplitude of the quantity x is tan (sinh x) . In See also:mechanics, the amplitude of a See also:wave is the maximum See also:ordinate .

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