Uploaded July 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Explore food storage jars in the museum's collections with Chief Curator Adam Aja. Learn about transport amphoras (storage jars); think about them as the cardboard boxes of the ancient world. Why are the bottoms pointed? How do they stand up? Wouldn't they have tipped over?

Part of the Mediterranean Marketplaces: Connecting the Ancient World exhibition at Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East.

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