The typical form of libation, "," is the ritualized pouring of wine from a jug or bowl held in the hand. The most common ritual was to pour the liquid from an "oinochoē" (wine jug) into a "phiale", a shallow bowl designed for the purpose. After wine was poured from the "phiale", the remainder of the "oinochoē's" contents was drunk by the celebrant. A libation is poured any time wine is to be drunk, a practice that is recorded as early as the Homeric epics. The etiquette of the symposium required that when the first bowl "(krater)" of wine was served, a libation was made to Zeus and the Olympian gods. Heroes received a libation from the second "krater" served, and (, lit. "Zeus who Finishes") from the third, which was supposed to be the last. An alternative was to offer a libation from the first bowl to the Agathos Daimon and from the third bowl to Hermes. An individual at the symposium could also make an invocation of and libation to a god of his choice.