Low hull with a flat bottom and a flat, albeit uneven gunwale. The stempost is straight with a forward slant, ending in an outward facing bird-headed device with eyes and traces of incised grooves. The incurving sternpost rises above the gunwale, its tip broken off. There are two seated figures facing each other, one larger than the other. They have protruding noses, chins and ears and topped caps. The larger figure at the stern has both arms outside of the gunwale and holds and oar 6 cm long. He is probably the helmsman.
Ship model
C54
Cypro-Archaic
Yialousa (probably)
L: 19 cm; H (amidships): 3.5 cm; beam (amidships): 5.5 cm
terracotta boat model of yellow-red clay with trades of red painted decoration on the outside. Rough outside surface, smooth inside
Nicosia Museum 1937/VI-8/3
Basch 1987: 258, no. 556; Gray 1974: G. 31, 3.j; Westerberg 1983: 21, no. 21, fig. 21
Low hull with a flat bottom and a flat, albeit uneven gunwale. The stempost is straight with a forward slant, ending in an outward facing bird-headed device with eyes and traces of incised grooves. The incurving sternpost rises above the gunwale, its tip broken off. There are two seated figures facing each other, one larger than the other. They have protruding noses, chins and ears and topped caps. The larger figure at the stern has both arms outside of the gunwale and holds and oar 6 cm long. He is probably the helmsman.
Basch, L. 1987. Le musée imaginaire de la marine antique. Athens: Institut Hellénique pour la preservation de la tradition nautique.
Gray, D. 1974, Seewesen. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht.
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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