Fragmentary ship model broken roughly amidships, with one extremity missing. Flat hull, with the surviving post (H: 3.4 cm) having a gentle outward incline at a 120o angle, ending in a flat undecorated extremity. A broken off area at the base of the post hints at a now missing bow projection, suggesting that the surviving extremity is most likely the bow. The interior details include three evenly spaced thwarts (rowing benches) positioned at gunwale level, with three ribs positioned immediately for'ard of each bench. There are traces of a fourth rib that is now missing, close to the break amidships. The exterior of the hull was painted solid with dark brown paint, with further traces of paint on two of the thwarts.
Ship model
A187
Protogeometric (1050-900 B.C.)
Athens, Acropolis (unknown context)
L: 14.5; H: 2.6; W: 5.6; Th: 0.4 cm
Fragmentary terracotta model broken roughly amidship. Light brown (7.5 YR 6/4) fabric, dark brown paint.
Athens National Museum, ακρ. 2667
Basch 1987: 141, 143, no. 299; Graef and Langlotz 1925: 257, tafel 113, no. 2667
Basch has hypothesized that the model is probably of Archaid date (Basch 1987: 141). Its only parallel however (will many similarities) is a Protogeometric model from Lefkandi (A30).
Basch, L. 1987. Le musée imaginaire de la marine antique. Athens: Institut Hellénique pour la preservation de la tradition nautique.
Graef, B. and E. Langlotz. 1925. Die antiken Vasen von der Akropolis zu Athen. Band 1. Heft 4. Berlin: de Gruyter.