The same vessels are noticed by Ford in his description of a Spanish _posada_. "Near the staircase downstairs, and always in a visible place, is a gibbous jar, _tinaja_, of the ancient classical amphora shape, filled with fresh water; and by it is a tin or copper utensil to take water out with, and often a row of small pipkins, made of a red porous clay,[95] which are kept ready filled with water, on, or rather in, a shelf fixed to the wall, and called _la tallada, el taller_. These pots, _alcarrazas_, from the constant evaporation, keep the water extremely cool. They are of various shapes, many, especially in Valencia and Andalusia, being of the unchanged identical form of those similar clay drinking-vessels discovered at Pompeii. They are the precise _trulla_. Martial speaks both of the colour and the material of those made at Saguntum, where they still are prepared in great quantities; they are not unlike the _ckool'lehs_ of Egypt, which are made of the same material and for the same purposes, and represent the ancient Canobic [Greek: statika]. They are seldom destined to be placed on the table; their bottoms being pointed and conical, they could not stand upright. This singular form was given to the _vasa futilia_, or cups used at the sacrifices of Vesta, which would have been defiled had they touched the ground. As soon, therefore, as they are drunk off, they are refilled and replaced in their holes on the shelf, as is done with decanters in our butlers' pantries."[96] [95] "Those of the finest quality," adds Ford, "are called _Bucaros_; the best come from South America--the form is more elegant, the clay finer, and often sweet-scented; many women have a trick of biting, even eating bits of them." [96] _Handbook_; Vol. I., p. 26.