Ancient Mediterranean

Digital Project

Fragmentary ship model

Cat. No.

A23

Date

LH IIIC

Findspot

Pyrgos Livanaton (Kynos)

Dimensions

Medium

Terracotta model, pale slip, reddish-brown paint. Half of model is missing

Accession Number

Lamia archaeological museum

References

Dakoronia 1996: 168-169, figs. 5-8, pl. II; Wedde 2000: 312, no. 333

Probable bow fragment with parts of a vertical stempost. There are two added clay strips of unknown function at the stem. The inside of the hull has a painted keel line and ribs. The outside has a painted line along the gunwale and on the lower half of the hull, joined by oblique lines.

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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