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Model of a ship of the Plain White Ware, Archaic I Cypriot statue
Model of a ship of the Plain White Ware, Archaic I Cypriot, c. 650–600 BC. Vienna Museum, Antikensammlung, V 1501.© Kunsthistorisches Museum

Archaic I

Model of a ship of the Plain White Ware

Model of a ship of the Plain White Ware model of a ship, which the Plain White Ware belongs to.Elongated body with an upright, short, pointed front stabes above the bow.The sharpened ram spur and the rear stages are missing.Along the DollBord on the rear and bug there is a horizontal strip made of added sound.Horizontal crossbeam from one side of the dollbord to the other as well as at rear and bug.Base for the mast in the middle of the keel.No traces of painting.Popular Chr..Such models have probably been exported;Some were found on the bottom of the sea.They could be the origin of the Homeric narrative (Ilias 11, 20), which according to Kinyras Agamemnon cheated by - contrary to what he had promised to him, - fifty toned ships instead of real.Bernhard-Walcher and others, the Cypricer Antique Collection in the KHM.Collection catalogs of the KHM Vol. 2, Vienna 1999 (V. Karageghis) H. 9,1 cm, L. 28,4 cm, B. 8,7 cm

Classification

Object type
Model
Ware
Plain White ware (Iron Age)
Motif
Ship
Material
Clay
Period
probablyIron AgeCypro-Archaic
Date
650 - 600 BC
Place of production
Cyprus

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Collection

Vienna Museum

Provenance

  • ENFALLSCHETHERE, MAX;1890 exchange

Identifiers

Accession no.
Antikensammlung, V 1501, Vienna Museum

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