Crescentic hull. The lower edge of the hull and the right post are missing.
Sealing of ship with deity
A37
LH IIIB
Pylos, Palace of Nestor
L: 2.47 cm; H: 1.21; thickness: 0.83 (sealing)
Clay sealing of reddish-yellow clay. Two almost completely extant impressions of a metal ring
CMS IS no. 193; Wedde 2000: 339, no. 906; Younger 1988: 124
The ship carries three seated figures facing left. Between the first and the second figure - roughly in the middle of the image - are the legs of figure depicted on a larger-scale, suggesting a deity.
Sakellarakis, J.A. 1982. Athen, Nationalmuseum. CMS I Supplementum. Berlin: Gebrüder Mann.
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.
Younger, J. G. 1988. The Iconography of Late Minoan and Mycenaean Sealstones and Finger Rings. Bristol: Bristol Classical Press.