Fragment of a boat model with a flat base tapering into a curved extremity that is broken at the tip. Decoration comprised of wavy lines on the inside and zigzag lines on the outside. There is a hole through the entire length of the gunwale. The pottery from the bothros is dated as very late LH IIIA2, with a few earlier pieces. An LH IIIC date has been argues by Davaras.
Fragmentary ship model
A26
LH IIIA1-LHIIIC (Keos Period VIII), probably LH IIIA2
Agia Irini, Keos, bothros A 1 over Room XIII (domestic storeroom)
L: 5.5 cm; W: 3.4 cm; H: v. 3 cm
Clay model fragment, light-colored slip, dark paint inside and out
Keos Archaeological Museum Kl 182
Caskey 1962: 273; Cummer and Schofield 1984: 129, no. 1628; Göttlicher 1978: 63, no. 331; Gray 1974: 20, no. 58; Johnston 1985: 27-28, BA 18; Wachsmann 1998: 103-04, fig. 6.35; Wedde 2000: 309, no. 309
The pottery from this bothros is said to be "very late LH IIIA2, with a few earlier pieces." (Cummer and Schofield 1984: 129)
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Johnston, P. F. 1985. Ships and Boat Models in Ancient Greece. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press.
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