Crescentic hull with a flattened bottom, a flat uneven gunwale and vertical posts. The preserved post rises vertically, with a hollow/ slightly concave external edge and ending in a rounded, undecorated extremity. The other post is a reconstruction and cannot be trusted. It is quite likely that the posts were in fact symmetrical. The outside of the hull has faint traces of a painted black decoration, consisting of a net/cross-hatched pattern.
Ship model
C78
Cypro-Archaic
Cyprus, uncertain provenance
L: 12 cm; H (amidships): 2.5 cm; beam (amidships): 4.5 cm
terracotta boat model, mended stem of dubious restoration. Coarse grey clay with white admixture
Pierides Foundation Museum, Larnaca no. 514
Dolan 2023: 503-504, no. 79; Karageorghis 1996: 76, no.V(b):23, PL. XLIII: 5; Westerberg 1983: 26-27, no. 29, fig. 29
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 Unpublished DPhil Thesis.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.
Westerberg, K. 1983. Cypriote Ships from the Bronze Age to c. 500 B.C. (SIMA, Pocket-books, 22). Göteborg: P. Åströms förlag.
port view
© Pierides Museum, Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation. Photograph by T. Manolova
starboard view
© Pierides Museum, Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation. Photograph by T. Manolova
top view
© Pierides Museum, Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation. Photograph by T. Manolova
bottom view
© Pierides Museum, Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation. Photograph by T. Manolova
bow view
© Pierides Museum, Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation. Photograph by T. Manolova
stern view
© Pierides Museum, Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation. Photograph by T. Manolova