Low and slender crescentic hull, with a row of twelve round holes even spaced on either side below the gunwale. One of the stems rises above the gunwale near vertically, with a slight inward inclination. Attached to it is what appears to be a small poop-deck. Inside the model there are four thwarts. The holes are likely oarports rather than scuppers, as they are just below the gunwale.
Ship model
C20
Uncertain. LC or Cypro-Archaic (Westerberg); Cypro-Geometric I (Karageorghis)
Cyprus, found in the sea probably near Amathus
L: 26 cm; H (amidships): 2.5 cm; W: 8 cm
terracotta boat model, reddish clay with no painted decoration
Private Collection of Mr. Phr. Nicolaides, Limassol
Basch 1987: 254, 257, no. 554; Carbillet 2005: 82; Dolan 2023: 352-353, no. 16; Karageorghis 1976b: 872, fig. 64; 1993: 74, no. GK (ii)4, pl. XXXII; Knapp 2019: 143, no. 10; Westerberg 1983: 16, no. 11, 85, fig. 11
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Carbillet, A. 2005. “Cérémonies autour du thème de la navigation à Amathonte,” CCEC 35: 77-88.
Dolan, M. 2023. Ceci n'est pas un bateau: Reassessing terracotta boat models in Late Bronze and Iron Age Cyprus. University of Southhampton. Unpublished DPhil Thesis.
Karageorghis, V. 1976b. “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1975,” BCH 100.2: 839-906.
―――. 1993.The Coroplastic Art of Ancient Cyprus II, Late Cypriote II-Cypro-Geometric III. Nicosia: A.G. Leventis Foundation.
Knapp, A. B. 2018. Seafaring and Seafarers in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean. Leiden: Sidestone 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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