Thick hull, with keel line rising slightly to the left. Gunwale line attached to hull by six vertical parallel lines, four of which do not reach the full distance. Oblique stroke departing from gunwale line upwards off edge. Rise of upper edge of hull segment suggests that an extremity followed just outside extant fragment to left." Decorative cross-hatched triangles below.
Fragment of a ship's hull
A105
LH IIIC middle
Athens, Akropolis
L: 8.2 cm; W: 7.8 cm
Fragment of a krater. Buff clay and slip, orange-brown paint, monochrome inside
Akropolis Museum AP2655
Broneer 1933: 360, fig. 37b (not identified as ship); Wedde 2000: 328, no. 682
Broneer, O. 1933. “ Excavations on the North Slope of the Acropolis in Athens 1931-1932,” Hesperia 2: 329-417.
Wedde, M. 2000. Towards a Hermeneutics of Aegean Bronze Age Ship Imagery. Peleus Studien zur Archäologie und Geschichte Griechenlands und Zyperns, vol. 6. Bibliopolis: Mannheim and Möhnsee.
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