The surviving stem rises gradually and is undecorated. A roughly modelled human figure with a prominent nose and a pointed cap sits with his back leaning against the stem, his left arm resting on the gunwale and his lower body flattened against the hull.
Small boat
C57
Cypro-Archaic
Salamis
L: 7 cm
fragmentary boat model of coarse grey clay, unpainted.
Dolan 2023: 522-523, no. 88; Karageorghis 1995: 129, no. II(VI)5; Westerberg 1983: 39, no. 44, fig. 44
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 Unpublished DPhil Thesis.
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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