Uru are used for pouring and storing palm wine (okhere) and other liquid substances like water.
In the Edo language, Uru is used to describe objects which could be considered jugs, ewers and aquamaniles.
Bronze jug from Benin. No. 186 in the sale catalogue where it is described as follows: "A RARE BENIN BRONZE WATER POT with globular body and cylindrical spreading neck, the handle in the form of a snake, a monkey in relief on the front, its mouth as the spout, the body ornamented with masks in relief and incised with figures and stylised foliage, the hinged cover termination in a scated figure and supported on four human feet with anklets, 15".
Purchased by the Nigerian Government at a sale by Messrs. Sotheby & Co. Bond Street, London on December 7th, 1953: Mr. W. B. Fagg assistant keeper, British Museum acted for the Nigerian Government at the sale.