Sentence examples for wine jars from inspiring English sources

(Rome fell because the wine jars were made of lead — a fun explanation, though somehow unsatisfying).

In the tomb of Tutankhamen most of the pottery vessels were simple wine jars in the form of amphorae.

Some of the shapes are classic: Siglinda Scarpa's huge earthenware vessel could be traced back to ancient Roman wine jars.

In Cyprus, they learned that a sponge diver had found an intriguing pile of wine jars on the sea bottom.

In the Song period, vases, wine jars, and pillows (which are more comfortable than they appear) were the most usual products.

The main cargo of more than 400 wine jars, mostly made in Rhodes, indicated the ship had stopped at that island.

I remember uncovering the handle of a big piece of amphora – a Roman wine jar.

Mrs. Kim nodded, opening a wood box to display the 17th-century wine jar inside.

The earliest is a simple, tulip-shaped wine jar made in the sixth millennium B.C. in Transcaucasian Georgia, where viticulture was born.

Waterhouse, who called McGovern the "worldwide authority" on early wines, said that this study probably pushes the limits of what can be learned from wine jar pottery.

Marcus is the kind of man who notices a pot-bound rose bush growing out of an old wine jar outside his military quarters.