The term Cup of Nestor or Nestor's Cup can refer to:
- A golden mixing cup, described in Homer's Iliad, belonging to Nestor, the king of Pylos.
- A golden goblet, found at Mycenae, which the excavator, Heinrich Schliemann, identified as the cup of Nestor described in the Iliad.
- 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:
“The cup of Morgan Fay is shattered.
Life is a bitter sage,
And we are weary infants
In a palsied age.”
—Allen Tate (18991979)