Small, irregularly shaped handmade model. Tubby crescentic hull with a rounded bottom and a vertical freeboard with a slight tumble-home, with a marked transition between the two. Vertical stempost (4 cm high) ending in a slightly incurving tip. The bow projection is very short and rounded. Directly behind the stempost there is a transverse beam (4 cm long, 1 cm wide) placed on top of the gunwale and protruding slightly outside the hull on either side. The sternpost rises gradually, its extremity broken off. On the better preserved side, the hull is decorated with seven oblique lines in red-brown paint from the gunwale downwards. The design on the other side appears to be similar.
Galley
C43
Cypro-Archaic
Amathus, Site E, tomb 83
L: 8 cm; H (amidships): 2 cm; beam (amidships): 4 cm
terracotta boat model, coarse yellow-red clay with traces of bands of red-purple paint on either side of the hull
Basch 1987: 250, 252, no. 535; Dolan 2023: 387-389, no. 29; Göttlicher 1977: 38, no. 175, pl. 12; Gray 1974: G. 31, 3.e); Hermary 1996: 16-17, Pl. III.1 (top left); Karageorghis 1996: 73-74, no. V(a): 7,pl. XLI: 2; Murray et al 1900: 113, fig. 164, 18; Walters 1903: A 210; Westerberg 1983: 34, no. 37, fig. 37
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Göttlicher, A. 1978. Materialien für ein Korpus der Schiffsmodelle im Altertum. Mainz: Philipp von Zabern.
Gray, D. 1974, Seewesen. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht.
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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.
port view
© The Trustees of the British Museum. Photograph by T. Manolova
starboard view
© The Trustees of the British Museum. Photograph by T. Manolova
top 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
