Flat hull with a highly uneven gunwale. One of the posts rises vertically while the other has a slight outward slant.
Ship model
C82
Cypro-Archaic (?)
Cyprus, uncertain provenance
L: 8.4 cm
terracotta boat model, damaged and roughly made with no traces of painted decoration
Nicosia Museum C 67
Dolan 2023 : 492-494, no. 75; Karageorghis 1996: 76, no.V(b):29, PL. XLIII: 9; Myres and Ohnefalsch-Richter 1899: 114
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 Unpublished DPhil Thesis.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.
Myres, J.L. and M. Ohnefalsch-Richter. 1899. A Catalogue of the Cyprus Museum. Oxford: Clarendon Press: 114.
starboard view
© Cyprus Department of Antiquities. Photograph by T. Manolova
port view
© Cyprus Department of Antiquities. Photograph by T. Manolova
top view
© Cyprus Department of Antiquities. Photograph by T. Manolova
bottom view
© Cyprus Department of Antiquities. Photograph by T. Manolova
bow view
© Cyprus Department of Antiquities. Photograph by T. Manolova
stern view
© Cyprus Department of Antiquities. Photograph by T. Manolova
