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Nestor cup

Objects · Myth & story

A named cup of later Homeric Nestor-speech. Not a kiddush cup, not a jue, and not Nestor the elder as identity.

Also known as Nestor's cup

Hellenic religion

  • Nestor cup appears in Hellenic religion.

    Iliad 11 describes Nestor’s cup as a gold vessel with dove-handles that the old man of Pylos lifts in the Achaean camp. A named Homeric cup in that poem, not Nestor the elder as identity, and not a later kiddush cup.

    from Homer · Iliad, c. 8th–7th century BCE (this form)

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • Iliad · Homer

    Homer, Iliad.