Amphora Iron Ages amphorae spread around the ancient Mediterranean world, being used by the ancient Greeks and Romans as the principal means for transporting and storing grapes, olive oil, wine, oil, olives, grain, fish, and other commodities. They were produced on an industrial scale until approximately the 7th century AD. Wooden and skin containers seem to have supplanted amphorae thereafter. They influenced Chinese ceramics and other East Asian ceramic cultures, especially as a fancy shape for high-quality decorative ceramics, and continued to be produced there long after they had ceased to be used further west. Besides coarse amphorae used for storage
Names of the Greeks the colonists and then for all Greeks; this became the root of all relevant terms in European languages. The Persians used the name "Yaunas" ("Yunans") after the Ionians, a Greek tribe who colonized part of the coasts of western Asia Minor. The term was used later in Hebrew ("Yevanim", ), Arabic, and also by the Turks. The word entered the languages of the Indian subcontinent as the "Yona". A unique form is used in Georgian, where the Greeks are called "Berdzeni" (ბერძენი). By Late Antiquity (c. 3rd–7th century CE), the Greeks referred to themselves as "Graikoi" (, "Greeks") and "Rhomaioi"/"Romioi"