Crescent shaped hull with symmetrical posts ending in a slightly flaring extremity with a concave top. The external edge of the posts is hollow/ slightly concave. This feature is much more pronounced on one of the sides (left on photo). There are no interior fittings.
Ship model
C16
Cypro-Archaic (7th-6th c. B.C.) or LC I/II
Cyprus, unknown provenance
L: 19 cm; H: 8 cm; width: 8.3 cm
Terracotta boat model, light yellow clay, marine encrustations
Basch 1987: 257, no. 552; CVA Louvre 4, II C a, pl. 2 no. 15; Caubet et al 1998: no. 222; Dolan 2023: 365-367, no. 22; Göttlicher 1977: 34, no. 145; Knapp 2019: 143, no. 5; Sauvage 2007: 97, 311, cat. 59; Wachsmann 1998: 152-53, fig. 7.52; Westerberg 1983: 15-16, 84, no. 10, fig. 10
There is disagreement regarding the model's date. The official museum entry identifies it as Cypro-Archaic, while Westerberg argues for LC I/II.
Basch, L. 1987. Le musée imaginaire de la marine antique. Athens: Institut Hellénique pour la preservation de la tradition nautique.
Caubet, A., S. Fourrier and A. Queyrel. 1998. L’art des modeleurs d’argile: antiquités de Chypre coroplastique. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux.
Göttlicher, A. 1978. Materialien für ein Korpus der Schiffsmodelle im Altertum. Mainz: Philipp von Zabern.
Knapp, A. B. 2018. Seafaring and Seafarers in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean. Leiden: Sidestone Press.
Pottier, E. 1927. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. France 5. Louvre 4. Paris: É. Champion.
Sauvage, C. 2007. “Marine et navigation phéniciennes,” in E. Fontan and H. Le Meaux, H. (eds.) Les Phéniciens et la Méditerranée. De Tyr à Carthage. Paris: Institut du Monde Arabe, pp. 92-101.
Wachsmann, S. 1998. Seagoing Ships & Seamanship in the Bronze Age Levant. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press.
Westerberg, K. 1983. Cypriote Ships from the Bronze Age to c. 500 B.C. (SIMA, Pocket-books, 22). Göteborg: P. Åströms förlag.
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