Ancient Mediterranean

Digital Project

Ship model

Cat. No.

C83

Date

Cypro-Archaic

Findspot

Cyprus, further provenance unknown

Dimensions

L: 9.7 cm

Medium

terracotta boat model with black and red painted decoration

Accession Number

Desmond Morris Collection, Oxford, DM-B1-188

References

Karageorghis 1996: 76, no.V(b):28, fig. 61; Morris 1985: pl. 289

Low flat hull. One of the stem is incurving, while the other ends in a low canopy. The exterior of the ship is painted red, with additional details painted over in black. The black details consist of two horizontal bands, one running along the gunwale, the other along the keel, with oblique bands in between. Four of these oblique lines are still clearly visible but there were likely more which are now faded.

Karageorghis, V. 1996. The coroplastic Art of ancient Cyprus. VI. Monsters, Animals and Miscellanea. Nicosia: A.G. Leventis Foundation.

Morris, D. 1985. The Art of Ancient Cyprus. Oxford: Phaidon.

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