Deep, bulgy crescentic hull with a flat middle bottom and vertical posts that protrude slightly above the gunwale. One of the stems is slightly more inclined outwards and curves inwards above the gunwale, ending in a slightly concave/forked tip. The other stem is perfectly vertical and has a more slender extremity above the gunwale, ending in an undecorated, slightly rounded tip. The hull is decorated with three horizontal parallel bands alternating between black and red, starting with black below the gunwale.
Ship model
C35
Cypro-Archaic
Unknown provenance
L: 16.7 cm; H (amidships): 5.5 cm; beam (amidships): 6.2 cm
terracotta boat model, light-brown clay mixed with fragments of white stone
Narodowe Museum, Cracow no. XI-1236
Basch 1987: 253, 255, no. 545; Dolan 2023: 507-508, no. 81; Göttlicher 1978: 36, no. 164, pl. 11; Kapera 1969: 45-46; 1970: 39-51, figs. 47-49; Karageorghis 1996: 76, no.V(b):22, PL. XLIII: 4; Westerberg 1983:39-40, no. 45, fig. 45
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