Ancient Mediterranean

Digital Project

Small boat

Cat. No.

C68

Date

Cypro-Archaic

Findspot

Amathus, West terrace

Dimensions

L: 7.2 cm; W: 3.4 cm

Medium

Fragmentary terracotta boat model

Accession Number

Storeroom of the École Française d’Athènes 77.1015

References

Dolan 2023: 467, no. 62; Hermary 1988: 108, pl. 20

Fragmentary model, possibly of boat. Decoration consists of a horizontal black band and oblique red ones. Orange clay.

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 Unpublished DPhil Thesis.

Hermary, A. 1988. “Le culte d’Aphrodite à Amathonte,” RDAC 2: 101-110.

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