Long slender flat hull with a flat gunwale. Concave stempost with a pronounced inward slant integrating a prominent ram. The stem is broken off above gunwale level. High incurving sternpost that rises near vertically, then curves sharply inward parallel to the hull. On either side of the gunwale, at the bow and stern are disc-shaped pairs of shields. Half of the shields protrudes above the gunwale. On the starboard side at the stern, there is a moulded quarter rudder. There are no traces of painted decoration. The tomb has also provided a terracotta figurine of a nude female holding her breasts, of the Astarte type.
Galley with shields
C48
Cypro-Archaic
Amathus,tomb 429, no. 5
C 47) L: 23 cm
terracotta boat model
Limassol district Museum
Karageorghis 1986: 834, 838, fig. 41; 1996: 74, no.V(a):13, PL. XLII: 4
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