Author: Filippo Di Iorio
<p>The so-called Nestor's Cupe from Pithikoussai: a drinking cup (Skyphos/Kotyle) that was found in 1954 in a grave in the ancient Greek site of Pithikoussai on the island of <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ischia" class="mw-redirect" title="Ischia">Ischia</a> in <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Italy" class="mw-redirect" title="Italy">Italy</a> (the earliest Greek colony in the West). Dated to the Geometric Period (c. 750-700 BCE), it's believed to have been originally manufactured in <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Rhodes" title="Rhodes">Rhodes</a>. It is now kept in the Villa Arbusto museum in the village of Lacco Ameno on the island of Ischia.
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It bear one of the oldest known Greek alphabet inscription, the oldest being found in Gabii (near Rome)
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25 November 2006 (original upload date)
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