Quaff down your favorite intoxicating beverage from any of these venerated vessels. Captured 4/27/14, at the marketplace of the beautiful Renaissance Faire, held at the beautiful Santa Fe Dam Recreation Area, in semi beautiful Irwindale, California. I like the dude in the last photo holding that epic horn. A drinking horn is the horn of a bovid used as a drinking vessel. Drinking horns are known from Classical Antiquity especially the Balkans, and remained in use for ceremonial purposes throughout the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period in some parts of Europe, notably in Germanic Europe, and also in traditions of the Caucasus. Drinking horns remain an important accessory in the culture of ritual toasting in Georgia in particular, where they are known as khantsi. Drinking vessels made from glass, ceramics or metal styled in the shape of drinking horns are also known from antiquity, in Greek known as rhyton. Source: Wikipedia free encyclopedia. Ironically, although cool in looks, I didn't see anyone at the Faire actually drinking from one of these. Preferred instead were mugs, tankards, and plastic cups. ZOOM like never before. Cheers.