amphoreis

Noun

amphoreus (plural amphoreis)

1. An Ancient Greek unit of liquid measure reckoned as equivalent to about 9 gallons.
   • The amphoreus of the prize-lists is a measure of capacity: in that singular “conspiracy of silence” as regards the mention of painted vases to which Greek literature almost universally adhered, the painted Panathenaic amphora is not alluded to, even in the prize-lists.1897, Cecil [Harcourt] Smith, “Panathenaic Amphorae”, in The Annual of the w:British School at Athens, number III, London: […] Macmillan & Co., Limited, page 190