Amphora

This amphora would have held liquids or grains for shipment overseas. The vessel’s slender, pointed bottom was created specifically to stand upright in a wooden rack on a ship. During the first millennium B.C.E., Carthage (in modern Tunisia) became the richest city in the ancient Mediterranean world through the colonial trade economy of the Phoenicians, who would colonize much of the western Mediterranean. By the end of the Third Punic War in 146 B.C.E., the city was destroyed, and the region fell under Roman control.