Verse 584 — W. Leaf's commentary on Homer's Iliad 1 0

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.