Drinking Vessels

File: Graugresenque_-_sigillata.jpg (1MB, 2048x1536px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 2048x1536px

>>3326523
Either terracotta or wood. I'd assume earthenware was the standard just about anywhere.

Clay cups? It's not exactly complex to shape mud into a cylinder and bake it.
Horns are just more ornate, expensive, and possibly phallic. They also have a larger capacity.

clay, wood, copper

File: MNA099.jpg (97KB, 600x906px) Image search: [Google]

97KB, 600x906px

>>3326523
obsidian vessels for mead

File: riddle-63-claw-beaker-from-ringmere-farm-british-museum1.jpg (28KB, 319x480px) Image search: [Google]

28KB, 319x480px

>>3326523
>what else would people use?

saxon/frankish "claw" chalices, which are fuckign awesome

File: L09723-117-lr-1.jpg (1MB, 2000x2000px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 2000x2000px

Mughal Jade cup are pretty beautiful

>>3326523
Goblets, made from the skull of an enemy

>>3326801
That is gorgeous

File: seddaesosc.jpg (153KB, 1600x1200px) Image search: [Google]

153KB, 1600x1200px

>>3326523
Sardinians used this

>>3326801
very nice

File: 58d8913500eaf022f229171f5eea4084--viking-s-viking-garb.jpg (34KB, 736x657px) Image search: [Google]

34KB, 736x657px

>>3326523
Most people would have used clay-dishes but glassware like pic related (it's a replica of a found viking glass) was also used. The richer you were the more pimp cup you had.

File: diatreta.jpg (2MB, 1920x2560px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 1920x2560px

Roman diatreta cup, try finding one of those undamaged after 2000 years.

>>3327830
Fun fact, the art of making window glass nearly died out in Europe during the migration period. and only started again in the end of the medieval period.
At first they recycled roman glass and later made so called forest glass. but between like 500-1300 there where no glass windows in Europe. You had like shutters and thats it, maybe parchment screens for the rich kids.
Glass windows were the ultimate splendor at the end of the medieval period, and only the richest could afford windows for their houses, or at least their private rooms.

File: Coppa_diatreta_Trivulzio.TIF.jpg (238KB, 800x1016px) Image search: [Google]

238KB, 800x1016px

>>3327886

>>3327886
Why is the bottom rounded? Seems a bit counterproductive

>>3327743
that's a fucking bird bath
how would you even drink from that

>>3327928
it is easier to make a rounded base than a square flat base
and the metal "net" works as a stabilizer

>>3327935
I didn't see the second pic you posted. Do you know what the lettering says?

File: 826px-9669_-_Milano_-_Museo_archeologico_-_Diatreta_Trivulzio_-_Foto_Giovanni_Dall'Orto_13_Mar_2012.jpg (144KB, 826x1024px) Image search: [Google]

144KB, 826x1024px

>>3327935
>the metal "net" works as a stabilizer
ain't no metal there lad, just multi colored glass, and until today they couldn't figure out how the romans did it.

>>3327954
The Milan cup says "BIBE VIVAS MULTIS ANNIS" Drink so you may live many years.