Fragmentary boat model with a crescentic hull and a post rising above the gunwale, with an applied pellet at its extremity. Orange clay, traces of red paint.
Small boat
C69
Cypro-Archaic
Amathus, Sanctuary of Aphrodite
L: 13.5 cm; H: 4.2 cm; W: 6.4 cm
Fragmentary terracotta boat model
Limassol District Museum AM 348 (76.1502.5 + 77.803.126)
Dolan 2023: 452-453, no. 53; Hermary 1988: 108, pl. 20
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 Unpublished DPhil Thesis.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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