Askos (pottery vessel)

A askos (Greek: hose, majority Askoi ) is a flat, bulbous vessel with a spout where the handle is attached. They were made ​​of clay and how vases usually painted with figural jewelry. Askoi served mainly for the storage of oil and the filling of lamps. In the Etruscans, the form was BC particularly common in the 4th century as a small oil dispenser, often in the form of a duck. Hellenistic special forms with two spouts dated mostly in the 2nd century BC to the 1st century BC and 1st century AD are associated with bronze Askoi as Serviergefäße for wine, as they found several times in the Vesuvius cities were.