Ancient Mediterranean

Digital Project

Small boat

Cat. No.

C60

Date

Cypro-Archaic

Findspot

Salamis

Dimensions

L: 3.5 cm; H (max): 3.3 cm

Medium

Terracotta boat model. Red clay, cream slip with traces of red paint

Accession Number

Sal. 4236

References

Dolan 2023: 534-535, no. 94; Karageorghis 1996: 74-75, no. V(a)15, fig. 60; Monloup 1984: 148, nos. 566-571, pl. 28, 158-160, no. 601, pl. 29; Wachsmann 2013: 158, fig. 3.73

Fragmentary model with traces of red paint.

From a certain archaic context, found amongst the archaic rubble of the rampart

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 Unpublished DPhil Thesis.

Karageorghis, V. 1996. The coroplastic Art of ancient Cyprus. VI. Monsters, Animals and Miscellanea. Nicosia: A.G. Leventis Foundation.

Monloup, Th. 1984. Salamine de Chypre XII, Les figurines de terre cuite de tradition archaïque, Paris: De Boccard.

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