Kernos

The Duenos Inscription, one of the earliest known Old Latin texts, variously dated from the 7th to the 5th century BC,[3] is inscribed round a kernos of three linked pots, of an Etruscan type.

The Greek term is sometimes applied to similar compound vessels from other cultures found in the Mediterranean, the Levant, Mesopotamia, and South Asia.

[4] Athenaeus preserves an ancient description of the kernos as: a terracotta vessel with many little bowls stuck on to it.

), oats, cakes of compressed fruit, honey, olive oil, wine, milk, and unwashed sheep's wool.

[5]The kernos was carried in procession at the Eleusinian Mysteries atop the head of a priestess, as can be found depicted in art.