Crescentic hull with a rounded bottom and vertical, near symmetrical posts ending in a flat, undecorated extremity. 6 cm from the sternpost there is a tall bulwark projecting 1.5 cm above the gunwale, probably indicating a poop-deck. The striped decoration is the same as on the previous model except that there are three bands on the lower part of the hull and five thinner ones on the elevated bulwark.
Ship model
C33
Cypro-Archaic
Amathus, Site E, tomb 83
L: 15.5 cm; H (amidships): 3.5; beam (amidships): 4.5 cm
terracotta boat model in bichrome ware, smooth red-orange clay, decorated with red/purple and black paint
Basch 1987: 255, no. 544c; Dolan 2023: 371-373, no. 24; Göttlicher 1977: 36, no. 160, pl. 10; Gray 1974: G. 31, 3 e), pl. G. IV b; Karageorghis 1996: 75, no. V(b):19, pl. XLIII: 1; Murray et al 1900: 112, 119, fig. 164, 16; Walters 1903: A 205; Westerberg 1983: 32-33, no. 35, fig. 35
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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 Unpublished DPhil Thesis.
Göttlicher, A. 1978. Materialien für ein Korpus der Schiffsmodelle im Altertum. Mainz: Philipp von Zabern.
Gray, D. 1974, Seewesen. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht.
Karageorghis, V. 1996. The coroplastic Art of ancient Cyprus. VI. Monsters, Animals and Miscellanea. Nicosia: A.G. Leventis Foundation.
Murray, A. S., Smith, A. H. and Walters, H. B. 1900. Excavations in Cyprus: (bequest of Miss E. T. Turner to the British Museum). London: Trustees of the British Museum.
Walters, H.B. 1903. Catalogue of the Terracottas in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum. London: Order of the Trustees.
Westerberg, K. 1983. Cypriote Ships from the Bronze Age to c. 500 B.C. (SIMA, Pocket-books, 22). Göteborg: P. Åströms förlag.
top view
© The Trustees of the British Museum. Photograph by T. Manolova
port view
© The Trustees of the British Museum. Photograph by T. Manolova
starboard view
© The Trustees of the British Museum. Photograph by T. Manolova
bottom view
© The Trustees of the British Museum. Photograph by T. Manolova
bow view
© The Trustees of the British Museum. Photograph by T. Manolova
stern view
© The Trustees of the British Museum. Photograph by T. Manolova
