It's technically known as a rhyton, which are usually used in religious places.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holy Cow!] Reference

Terracotta rhyton (ritual vessel) painted in "Marine Style".    From Wordnik.com.  [Minoans in Manhattan] Reference

We uncovered this rhyton, shaped like a pig, in the niche of room 11.    From Wordnik.com.  [Picture 58 « Special Finds « Interactive Dig Crete – Zominthos Project] Reference

Each rhyton has a hole at the bottom, through which liquids slowly flowed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glossary of Ceramics « Interactive Dig Crete – Zominthos Project] Reference

He dipped the rhyton into the masterpiece of a wine-cooler, wiped it with a drawn-thread napkin, and filled my cup.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Praise Singer]

The small triangular beard growing below the lower lip of the mask also recalls the triangular beard of the lion-head rhyton.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Case for Authenticity] Reference

Vermeule had noted this earlier, attributing both rhyton and mask to the same artist and citing them as characteristically Mycenaean works.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Case for Authenticity] Reference

With the rhyton, the Greek drinking-horn in his hand, Cupid stands above the globe, his little toes holding on firmly so that he will not slip.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts] Reference

The rhyton (derived from the ancient Greek word, ρυτον) is a container from which fluids were intended to be drunk or poured as a libation in a religious ceremony.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glossary of Ceramics « Interactive Dig Crete – Zominthos Project] Reference

But we must remember the quantity of material emerging from the shaft graves and the fact that the now famous gold lion's head rhyton was originally mistaken for a helmet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Not A Forgery. How about a Pastiche?] Reference

Also on display are several unprovenienced items from the Met's own collection, among them a ram's headed silver rhyton and two gold appliqués in the form of lions, purportedly from Iran.    From Wordnik.com.  [At the Museums] Reference

I should add that the rendering of the moustache on the mask is similar to the locks of the mane on the lion-head rhyton; moreover, its shape is the same as the upper lip of two of the masks from grave circle A.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Case for Authenticity] Reference

Ellen N. Davis has drawn attention to the fact that in their rendition the locks of the mane and beard of the gold lion-head rhyton from shaft grave IV and the beard of the Mask of Agamemnon are "almost identical.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Case for Authenticity] Reference

Visitors may recognize other hallmark Minoan artifacts in the show: clay tablets inscribed with the still-undeciphered Linear A writing, a bull's head rhyton carved from chlorite with gilded horns, and the "Chieftain's Cup," a carved steatite conical cup with processional scene (see photo gallery).    From Wordnik.com.  [Minoans in Manhattan] Reference

Raise again the rhyton, of Artaxerxes, golden bright.    From Wordnik.com.  [Signs of the Times] Reference

The bull's head rhyton image: Late Minoan IB, Palace at Zakros, West Wing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference

In the end the rhyton (the piece with the highest estimate) appears to have been left unsold, and the marble statue failed to reach the price for which it was sold at the same auction house in 2004.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News from SYS-CON MEDIA] Reference

Bulgarian archaeologists discovered a unique glass rhyton with the image of an unknown animal during excavation work near the southeastern village of Karanovo, local media reported on Tuesday (November 17th).    From Wordnik.com.  [SETimes news - English] Reference

But from the great rhyton found at Hagia Triada, from a steatite relief found at Knossos in Igor, and from various seal-impressions, we know that boxing was one of the favourite sports of the Minoans, as it was of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sea-Kings of Crete] Reference

There were no findings of the gold or silver artefacts expected in an elite burial, although they did find fragments of a conical rhyton - a two-hole vessel that can be used for libation rituals and is often associated with elite burials.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

There are too many highlights to list, but standouts include: a steatite rhyton fragment incised with playful dolphins from Palaikastro on eastern Crete; ceramic vessels in the shape of boots with upturned toes from Kültepe in Turkey; an Egyptian game board inlaid with ebony, from which ivory pegs topped with the heads of hounds and jackals protrude as if the players were still mid-game; a colorful wall-painting fragment from Akrotiri, on the Greek island of Santorini, which depicts the boar's tusk helmet of a brave warrior.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Foreign Influence] Reference

Pig rhyton, top (room 11).    From Wordnik.com.  [Picture 58 « Special Finds « Interactive Dig Crete – Zominthos Project] Reference

Pig rhyton, front (room 11).    From Wordnik.com.  [Picture 58 « Special Finds « Interactive Dig Crete – Zominthos Project] Reference

Detail of rhyton in situ (room 15).    From Wordnik.com.  [Picture 121 « Field Notes 2008 « Interactive Dig Crete – Zominthos Project] Reference

Apulian rhyton, a Roman marble youth with a cockerel, and a South Italian terracotta figure) appeared to be similar to objects that featured in Polaroid photographs seized in the Geneva.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News from SYS-CON MEDIA] Reference