Fragmentary boat model. There is a thwart/cross-beam near the stem, forward of which are two small pierced holes, one on either side of the hull near the gunwale. On one side, there is a quarter rudder rendered as an oblique band in relief applied to the hull. Orange clay with grey interior.
Small boat
C74
Cypro-Archaic
Amathus, Sanctuary of Aphrodite
L: 9.8 cm; H: 5 cm; W: 5.7 cm
Fragmentary terracotta boat model
Storeroom of the École Française d’Athènes 82.126.9
Dolan 2023: 448-449, no. 51; 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 Unpublished DPhil Thesis.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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