The chytra or broad-mouthed cooking pot is most commonly made in coarse, gritty fabric, like this example, to withstand heat without cracking, and was often used in combination with cooking stands like No. 62 and lids like No. 64, or directly on a hearth, where examples have been found. The chytra could also be used for storage (examples from Lydian houses stored both barley and chaff, probably temporarily for everyday use), however, and they were also used in the gold refinery at Sector PN for separating gold and silver. Such multiple uses of pottery was common in Lydia and probably elsewhere in the ancient world. The same shape, but made from finer fabrics without the gritty inclusions, and so probably unsuitable for cooking, is rarer; examples include the two “jugs” from ritual dinners, Nos. 38 and 42.