Flat hull with a highly uneven gunwale and nearly symmetrical posts ending in rounded, undecorated extremities. Both posts rise sharply and are incurving, with one of them rising slightly higher above the gunwale, with a more pronounced inward curve (possibly the stern).
Ship model
C84
Cypro-Archaic
Cyprus, uncertain provenance
L: 6 cm; H (amidships): 3 cm
terracotta boat model, rough uneven clay, no painted decoration.
Basch 1987: 253, 256, no. 550; Dolan 2023: 381-383, no. 27; Karageorghis 1996: 76, no.V(b):27, PL. XLIII: 8; Karageorghis et al 2016: 57, 255, no. 93; Myres 1914: 348, no. 2129; Westerberg 1983: 43, no. 52, fig. 52
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Karageorghis, V. 1996. The coroplastic Art of ancient Cyprus. VI. Monsters, Animals and Miscellanea. Nicosia: A.G. Leventis Foundation.
Karageorghis, V., G. Merker and J. R. Mertens. 2016. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art: Terracottas. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Myres, J. L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Westerberg, K. 1983. Cypriote Ships from the Bronze Age to c. 500 B.C. (SIMA, Pocket-books, 22). Göteborg: P. Åströms förlag.
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