
Archaic II
Terracotta model of a ship
The model depicts, in considerable detail, the features of a contemporary vessel. It includes the helmsman sitting in the bow. All of the preserved ship models come from Amathus, indicating the importance of the site as a maritime center. H. 7 in. (17.8 cm)
Date
600 - 480 BC
Accession No.
74.51.1752
Collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Provenance
References
- Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1877. Cyprus: Its Ancient Cities, Tombs, and Temples. A Narrative of Researches and Excavations During Ten Years' Residence in That Island. p. 259, London: John Murray.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.702, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 2127, p. 348, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.McClees, Helen and Christine Alexander. 1933. The Daily Life of the Greeks and Romans: As Illustrated in the Classical Collections, 5th ed. pp. 117, 120, fig. 146, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.McClees, Helen and Christine Alexander. 1941. The Daily Life of the Greeks and Romans: As Illustrated in the Classical Collections, 6th ed. pp. 117, 120, fig. 146, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Göttlicher, Arvid. 1978. Materialien für ein Corpus der Schiffsmodelle im Altertum. no. 162, p. 36, pl. 11.162, Mainz am Rhein: P. von Zabern.Westerberg, Karin. 1983. Cypriote ships from the Bronze age to c. 500 BC. no. 50, pp. 41-42, 48, 50-51, 53, 57, 61, 63, 66, fig. 50, Gothenburg: Paul Aströms Förlag.Basch, Lucien. 1987. Le musée imaginaire de la marine antique. pp. 250, 252-54, figs. 536-42, Athènes: Institut hellénique pour la préservation de la tradition nautique.Karageorghis, Vassos. 1995. The Coroplastic Art of Ancient Cyprus, Vol. 4. no. II(vi)10, p. 130, pl. LXXVI.4, 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.Basch, Lucien. 1999. "Un modèle de navire chypriote du VIe siècle av. J.-C. trouvé en mer au large d'Amathonte." Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, 123(1): p. 46 n. 5, p. 54 n. 46.Karageorghis, Vassos, Joan Mertens, and Marice E. Rose. 2000. Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 253, 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.Picón, Carlos A. 2007. Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome no. 287, pp. 246, 462, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Mertens, Joan R. 2010. How to Read Greek Vases. pp. 48-9, fig. 25, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Karageorghis, Vassos, Gloria Merker, and Joan R. Mertens. 2016. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Terracottas. no. 91, pp. 56, 255, Online Publication, [CD-Rom 2004], New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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