Amphora (Accepted)

Jug (Accepted)

An amphora is an ancient Greek storage vessel, with a constricted neck and two handles (Greek amphi, phoreus, “double handles”). Though a period artifact, we’ve no examples of the amphora in period armory. The default form in Society armory has a flat bottom, as in the illustration; this was often a painted luxury item in ancient Greece [Singer, plate 18]. The utilitarian “wine amphora” has a pointed base, instead of a flat base.

Similar to the amphora is the “jug”, usually with a rounder body and narrower neck, and made to be carried by one person. For related charges, see bottle, vase.

The Calontir Waterbearer’s Guild bears: Azure, on a two-handled jug fesswise reversed argent, distilling a gout d’eau charged with a gout de larme, a cross of Calatrava azure.

Alisoun MacCoul of Elphane bears: Or, a black-figure neck amphora, cracked in chief proper.

Lina Hen bears: Per chevron ermine and gules, in base a wine amphora Or.

Claudia Prima bears: Gules, three amphorae Or.