ship; model

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Object Type: ship; model
Museum number: 1894,1101.282
Description: Terracotta model of a merchant sailing ship with Bichrome decoration; hand-made; tall projecting stems fore and aft; small mast-socket inside the model; cross-beams on each end of the ship; made from coarse buff clay decorated with black and red-purple stripes on the outside and the edges of the hull; repaired from fragments, part of the hull is missing.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 600BC-450BC (circa)
Production place: Made in: Cyprus
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Amathus, Site E, tomb 73
Materials
Ware
Technique: handmade; painted
Dimensions: Height: 3.20 centimetres (midship); Height: 5.70 centimetres (stem above gunwhale); Length: 17.50 centimetres; Width: 7.20 centimetres
Curator's comments: See also: A. Hermary, 'Figurines en terre cuite des fouilles anglaises d'Amathonte (1893-1894)', CCEC 26 (1996/2), pp. 13ff which discusses in particular the terracottas from Tomb 83 and the likely 6th century BC date.
Bibliographic references: Terracotta / Catalogue of Terracottas in the British Museum (A204); Murray, Smith and Walters 1900 / Excavations in Cyprus (p.139, Tomb 83; p. 113 & fig. 164, no.19); Westerberg Cypriote Ships / Cypriote ships from the Bronze Age to c. 500 BC (No. 31, pp.27-28 & fig. 31 [wrongly attributed to T. 73]); Karageorghis Coroplastic VI / The coroplastic art of ancient Cyprus. VI. Monsters, animals and miscellanea (p. 76, cat. no. 25 & pl. XLIII:7)
Location: Not on display
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Funder name
Acquisition date: 1894
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1894,1101.282

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