Ancient Mediterranean

Digital Project

Fragmentary ship model

Cat. No.

A22a

Date

LH IIIC early

Findspot

Pyrgos Livanaton (Kynos)

Dimensions

Medium

Terracotta model with dark brown paint. Half of model is missing

Accession Number

Lamia archaeological museum

References

Dakoronia 1996: 165-167, figs. 1-4, pl. I; Wedde 2000: 312, no. 332

Probable bow fragment with a vertical stempost. The figurehead is missing. There is an applied clay band as keelson inside the hull. Paint along the stem, gunwale and keel.

Dakoronia, F. 1996. “The Kynos…fleet,” in H. Tzalas (ed.) Tropis IV. 4th International Symposium on Ship Construction in Antiquity, Athens 1991. Athens: Hellenic Institute for the Preservation of Nautical Tradition, pp. 159-171.

Wedde, M. 2000. Towards a Hermeneutics of Aegean Bronze Age Ship Imagery. Peleus Studien zur Archäologie und Geschichte Griechenlands und Zyperns, vol. 6. Bibliopolis: Mannheim and Möhnsee.

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