A bota bag is a traditional Spanish liquid receptacle, used mainly as a wineskin. An alternative visualization, attested by Eratosthenes, saw this constellation as a wineskin held by Centaurus. The boy succeeds in his task and returns with the wineskin. Plato was of the opinion that it had been made into a wineskin. A colambre is a wineskin whose origin comes from the 16th century.