The Fountain with a Thousand Amphorae (French: fontaine aux mille amphores) is an archaeological site located in the city of Carthage in Tunisia. Discovered...
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Carthage Palace (category Articles with short description)
ambassador, a building ceded by Bourguiba after an attempted coup in 1962, as well as the archaeological site called "fountain with a thousand amphorae". Originally...
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all, more than any other city in the world. For more than two thousand years fountains have provided drinking water and decorated the piazzas of Rome...
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Asterius Chapel (category Articles with short description)
between the Carthage Lyceum and the Fontaine aux mille amphores (Fountain of a Thousand Amphorae). The building in question is the most monumental discovery...
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Republic Square, Yerevan (category All articles with bare URLs for citations)
of two sections: an oval roundabout and a trapezoid-shaped section which contains a pool with musical fountains. The square is surrounded by five major...
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Bibracte (category Articles with French-language sources (fr))
Saint Pierre Fountain was a place of worship and pilgrimage, in which coins and votive offerings were found. At the summit of the mountain, a Celtic place...
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Pompeii (category Articles with short description)
containers were found, closed by lids, with the sauce inside while in the nearby garden was a large deposit of amphorae. Public buildings Amphitheatre of Pompeii...
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Lisbon (category Articles with short description)
Olissipo was known for its garum (a fish sauce highly prized by the elites of the empire and exported in amphorae to Rome), wine, salt, and horse-breeding...
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Kavarna (category Articles with Bulgarian-language sources (bg))
anchors, amphorae and ceramics found during the underwater archaeological expeditions are exposed there. Coins from different epochs and a golden Thracian...
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Nîmes (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
funerary monuments and amphorae. Nîmes is one of the warmest cities in France. The city has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen: Cfa), with summers being too...
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Locri Epizefiri (category Articles with short description)
BC) were created in transport amphorae, appropriately broken and upside down. Fennel and lettuce were grown, watered with warm water to accelerate their...
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History of Paris (category Articles with French-language sources (fr))
found amphorae of Italian wine and olive oil, shellfish, and a popular Roman sauce called garum. Despite its commercial importance, Lutetia was only a medium-sized...
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Mevlâna Museum (category Articles with short description)
perform the sema, the famous whirling ritual. The ṣadirvan (ablutions fountain) in the middle of the courtyard was built in the reign of Yavuz Sultan...
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Robert Ballard (category Articles with short description)
peninsula. On wrecks A-C, mounds of distinctive carrot-shaped shipping jars, called amphorae, were found. They were of a style associated with Sinop and retained...
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Corinthian seals with decorations of Bacchic scenes, balsam bottles, a considerable quantity of well-preserved ceramics (amphorae, terracotta pots, cups...
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Acra (fortress) (category Articles with short description)
This is also supported by archaeological evidence, including Rhodian amphorae handles and 18 box graves found on the eastern slope of the City of David...
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Antibes (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
community with ties with Mediterranean populations, including the Etruscans, as evidenced by the presence of numerous underwater amphorae and wrecks...
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Sines (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
Castle of Sines, discovered Roman "fishing factories", and a ceramics kiln to produce amphorae for salted fish, both dating back to the 1st and 2nd centuries...
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Stevenage (category Pages with non-numeric formatnum arguments)
a dodecahedron toy, fragments of amphorae for imported wine, bone hairpins, and samian ware pottery associated with high status families. Archeological...
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Maison du chemin de Paradis (category Articles with French-language sources (fr))
garden of the property is a gift to Martigues because "it forms a true summary of its history and its memory: Greek amphorae and inscriptions, Provençal...
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History of the nude in art (category All articles with dead external links)
the Olympic Games it was customary to give the winner a ceramic vase—the "panathenaic amphorae"—with representations of the athletic discipline exercised...
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Canosa di Puglia (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
and amphorae. Cruet, pitchers, bowls, jars, amphoras, urns, small vases in the 3rd century BC Jewish, Roman and Christian lamps. There are also a clay...
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Volubilis (category Articles with short description)
then scooped out of the basin and poured into amphorae. There is also substantial evidence of the city being a lively commercial centre. No fewer than 121...
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Ivan Aivazovsky (category Awarded with a large gold medal of the Academy of Arts)
mostly contained broken amphorae and bones, but also golden necklaces, earrings, a female head, a chain with a sphinx, a sphinx with woman's head, the head...
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House of the Prince of Naples (category Articles with short description)
misreading of the written documentation. In her analysis of amphorae finds, she comments on amphorae containing building repair material discovered in the Casa...
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Stabiae (category Articles with short description)
around a peristyle and an olive mill was found in the torcularium. Several agricultural implements were found including hoes, a hammer and amphorae. This...
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Lixus (ancient city) (category Articles with short description)
the straits in international trade increased. The numerous fragments of amphorae, intended specifically for packaging fish products, indicate that the city...
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Drina (category Articles with short description)
Serbia. Ramparts extended to the Drina itself. Discovered artefacts include amphorae, mosaics, glass objects, water cisterns, parts of arched gates, guard towers...
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Kyrenia (category Articles with short description)
together with all its amphorae and cargo, and permanently exhibited at the castle. The number of new hotels and tourists multiplied and a new road was...
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Index of ancient Greece-related articles (category Articles with short description)
Tyrannion of Amisus Tyrannus (mythology) Tyrant Tyrmeidae Tyro Tyrrhenian amphorae Tyrtaeus Ucalegon Ula (Caria) Underworld Painter Unity of opposites Unmoved...
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