The Amphoras ProjectThe site contains information about the plain, unglazed, ceramic storage containers with two handles, mostly pointed at the bottom, that were used to carry wine, oil, fish, and other commodities around the ancient Mediterranean. While we have information about many classes of amphora (including Roman, Pamphyllian, Cypriote, Gaza 'baggy' jars, Sinpean, etc.) our primary focus is on Greek amphoras, the jars made predominanty in Rhodes, Thasos, and Knidos to supply the needs of Athens and the Greek mainland in the Hellenistic period. The amphoras, and especially their stamped handles, collected in the American excavation of the Athenian Agora and at Corinth supply a large part of our data, though the amazing amphora finds collected by Lucas Benaki from building excavations in Alexandria in Egypt, and documented by Virginia Grace, provide a major supplement -- and a corrective -- to our understanding of the ancient wine trade.