Greek
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Gutti were used as vessels for water or oil, which would be poured out in drops (hence the name from the Latin gutta, to drop), during offerings and at other occasions. The shape is distinctive to Magna Graecia, with a closed body, a small handle on the shoulder and a tall angled spout. Decorative motifs were often impressed on the top. For a similar example but with a medallion of Medusa in the British Museum, see accession number 1988,0619.4. For further discussion see M.-O. Jentel, Les gutti et les askoi à reliefs étrusques et apuliens: essai de classification et de typologie, Leiden, 1976.