Galvanoplastic replica of a gold cup. - The shape of the 'cup', which is still unique today, with the doves on the handles, corresponds roughly to the description Homer gives of Nestor's cup (Iliad 11, 632-637). Because Homer gives only little and unclear information about the appearance of the cup, it was already discussed at length in antiquity.
In 1876, Heinrich Schliemann found a gold cup in Mycenae that was close in shape to the one described by Homer; he therefore believed that he had found the real model of this vessel. (AVS)
Original: Gold; Late Helladic I (1580-1530 BC); Mycenae, Grave Round A, Shaft Tomb IV; Athens, Nat. Mus.
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