Terracotta ship models from Cyprus are known from the early second millennium B.C. The quality of models and representations of the Archaic period may have been prompted by the intense and far-flung maritime activity of the Phoenicians.
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Title:Terracotta model of a ship
Period:Cypro-Archaic II
Date:6th century BCE
Culture:Cypriot
Medium:Terracotta; hand-made
Dimensions:H. 3 5/8 in. (9.19 cm)
Classification:Terracottas
Credit Line:The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76
Accession Number:74.51.1750
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Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1894. A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Vol. 2. pl. LXXVII.701, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.
Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 2128, p. 348, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Westerberg, Karin. 1983. Cypriote ships from the Bronze age to c. 500 BC. no. 51, pp. 42–3, 48, 55, 57, 61, 63, 66, fig. 51, Gothenburg: Paul Aströms Förlag.
Basch, Lucien. 1987. Le musée imaginaire de la marine antique. pp. 254, 258, fig. 558, Athènes: Institut hellénique pour la préservation de la tradition nautique.
Karageorghis, Vassos. 1995. The Coroplastic Art of Ancient Cyprus, Vol. 4. no. II(vi)11, p. 131, pl. LXXVI.3, Nicosia: Foundation Anastasios G. Leventis.
Barnes, Lorna and Ellen Salzman. 1998. "Preliminary Investigations of Surface Decoration on a Group of Ancient Terracottas from Cyprus." Glass, Ceramics and Related Materials : ICOM Committee for Conservation Glass, Ceramics, and Related Materials Working Group, & Institute of Arts and Design Department of Conservation Studies, Alice B. Paterakis, ed. p. 82, Vantaa, Finland: EVTEK Institute of Art and Design, Dept. of Conservation Studies.
Karageorghis, Vassos, Joan Mertens, and Marice E. Rose. 2000. Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 254, p. 158, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Hermary, Antoine. 2000. Amathonte: Les figurines en terre cuite, archaïques et classiques, les sculptures en pierre, Vol. 5. p. 49, Paris: Editions Recherché sur les Civilisations.
Karageorghis, Vassos, Gloria Merker, and Joan R. Mertens. 2016. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Terracottas. no. 92, pp. 56–57, 255, Online Publication, [CD-Rom 2004], New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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