 These and the illustrations in books of fables had little scope for invention.The greatest diversity is in the type of vessel involved and over the centuries these have varied from a humble clay pot to elaborate Greek pitchers.There has also been a musical interpretation among the ten on David P. Shortland's Australian recording, "Aesop Go HipHop" (2012), where the sung chorus after the hip hop narration underlines what can be achieved by incremental effort, "Little by little, bit by bit".