Model of a ship of the Plain White Ware

Model of a ship of the Plain White Ware

Description:

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

Period:

Archaic I

Date:

650 - 600 BC

Collection:

Vienna Museum

Provenance:

ENFALLSCHETHERE, MAX;1890 exchange

Accession Number:

Antikensammlung, V 1501