Nestor's Cup

The term Cup of Nestor or Nestor's Cup can refer to:

  1. A golden mixing cup, described in Homer's Iliad, belonging to Nestor, the king of Pylos.
  2. A golden goblet, found at Mycenae, which the excavator, Heinrich Schliemann, identified as the cup of Nestor described in the Iliad.
  3. A clay drinking vessel of the 8th century BC found at Pithekoussai, Ischia (Italy), which bears a famous inscription calling itself Nestor's cup.

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Famous quotes containing the word cup:

    “Sunday morning may be cheery enough, with its extra cup of coffee and litter of Sunday newspapers, but there is always hanging over it the ominous threat of 3 P.M., when the sun gets around to the back windows and life stops dead in its tracks.”
    —Robert Benchley (1889–1945)