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[584] ἀμφικύπελλον, double-handled. This interpretation, due to Aristarchos, is decisively supported by Helbig H. E. pp. 358-71. He derives it from *“κυπέλη”, conn. with “κώπη”, handle, as an Aeolic form (cf. Latin capulus); hence an adj. “κυπελ-ιος” = “κύπελλος”. The explanation of Aristotle, followed by Buttmann and others, that it meant ‘a double cup,’ i.e. a quasi-cylindrical cup divided in the middle by a horizontal partition, so that each end would serve either as a foot or a cup, he shows to be quite untenable. The two-handled type is the commonest of all forms of drinking-cup from the earliest times — Hissarlik and Mykenai — till the latest.

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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