Ancient Mediterranean

Digital Project

Small boat

Cat. No.

C62

Date

Cypro-Archaic

Findspot

Salamis, found amongst archaic rubble of the rampart

Dimensions

L: 8.8 cm; H: 2.6 cm

Medium

Terracotta boat model. Pink clay with cream slip

Accession Number

Sal. 4059

References

Dolan 2023: 541, no. 98; 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. There are traces of a seated figure, including the legs and the left arm.

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 Unpublished DPhil Thesis.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.

Wachsmann, S. 2013. The Gurob Ship–Cart Model and Its Mediterranean Context. College Station: Texas A&M University Press.

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