model;
boat
- Museum number
- 133043
- Description
-
Bitumen model boat.
- Production date
- 2400BC-2200BC
- Dimensions
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Length: 75 centimetres
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Width: 28 centimetres (maximum)
- Curator's comments
- There is excavated evidence that these boat models were inteerred partway down the burial shaft and one hypothesis is that they were intrended as demon lures designed to distract them from the real grave-goods buried beneath.
- Location
- On display (G56/dc11)
- Exhibition history
-
Exhibited:
2007 Jul-Nov, Museu Maritimo Ilhavo, Portugal, 'The Ilhavo Diaspora: Memory, Reality and Myth'
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 133043
- Registration number
- .133043
- Additional IDs
-
Excavation/small finds number: U.8848-9 (?) (excavation number)
