Remnants of a second ship together with the head of a man. The sail appears to be billowing to the left, suggesting the ship is facing in the same direction. A wavy line runs diagonally from the masthead. It is drawn identically to the hawser used to raise a stone anchor on a ship depicted on a later Cypriot jug. Semi-circular element on the left with a reserved dot in the center.
Ship with a man's head
A107
LH IIIC
Seraglio, Kos
L: 18 cm; H: 11 cm; thickness: 1.1 cm
Finely tempered well baked bright red clay. Yellowish-red inside, yellowish slip outside, brown and matt red-brown paint
Basch 1978: 146-47, no. 310; Morricone 1972-73: 358-359, 361; Thomatos 2006: 95-96, figs. 1.297, 1.299; Vermeule and Karageorghis 1982:XII.33; Wachsmann 1981: 200; 1998: 141-42, fig. 7.26a-b; Wedde 2000: 326, no. 650, 654
The figures are interpreted as wearing feathered helmets such as those worn by the Sea People depicted at Medinet Habu.
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Vermeule, E. and V. Karageorghis. 1982. Mycenaean Pictorial Vase Painting. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Wachsmann, S. 1981. “The Ships of the Sea People,” IJNA 10: 187-220.
―――. 1998. Seagoing Ships & Seamanship in the Bronze Age Levant. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press.
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