DOI Artikel:
Kapera, Zdzisław Jan: Terakotowy model barki morskiej
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.25235#0057
with the sea-trade and used the objects imported from different parts of the Medi-
terranean Sea Basin. Just the models of ships and numerous imports found in the
graves bear witness to it. The distinct individualization of the terracotta ships sug-
gests they could not be ex-votos of eoroplasits’ common batch produetion. Their smali
number found in the cemetery though terracota objects were one of the commonest
eąuipment of the graves allows to suppose they were madę separately for a special
order, and they are probably a reproduction of objects possessed by the dead. In
conseąuence we may infer the graves are those of the ship owners.
For it should be remembered in Archaic period Cyprus was an important centre
supplying timber necessary for shipbuilding (pithys = so called Aleppo pine) as well
as skilled ship crews and shipbuiledrs. The famę of Cyprus as a shipbuilding country
is supported by the records of the ancient (Strabo, Geography XIV, 6, 5; Diodorus
II, 16, 6; Pliny the Elder, Nat. Hist. VII, 209).
The finding of terracotta ship models at Amathus may suggest this branch of
industry might have developped there in the Archaic period. Phoenician influences
might have been responsible for it.
Corning back to Cracow model it should be noted what follows: The model be-
longs to the rare Cyprian terracotta objects from the VI c. B.C. found above all in
the graves of people probably connected with the sea. Together with the findings
of the same type published so far it provides an interesting materiał to study not
merely the burial customs in Cyprus in the Archaic period but also the history of
navigation and shipbuilding in the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea Basin.
Two objects from the Polish collections analogous to that discussed in this paper
are worth mentioned here: 1. the model of a transport boat with a ąuadruped re-
presented in its inside (before the World War II it was at Gołuchów. At the mo-
ment its fate is unknown); 2. the model of a war ship from the Czartoryskie Collec-
tion (National Museum in Cracow, not published).
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terranean Sea Basin. Just the models of ships and numerous imports found in the
graves bear witness to it. The distinct individualization of the terracotta ships sug-
gests they could not be ex-votos of eoroplasits’ common batch produetion. Their smali
number found in the cemetery though terracota objects were one of the commonest
eąuipment of the graves allows to suppose they were madę separately for a special
order, and they are probably a reproduction of objects possessed by the dead. In
conseąuence we may infer the graves are those of the ship owners.
For it should be remembered in Archaic period Cyprus was an important centre
supplying timber necessary for shipbuilding (pithys = so called Aleppo pine) as well
as skilled ship crews and shipbuiledrs. The famę of Cyprus as a shipbuilding country
is supported by the records of the ancient (Strabo, Geography XIV, 6, 5; Diodorus
II, 16, 6; Pliny the Elder, Nat. Hist. VII, 209).
The finding of terracotta ship models at Amathus may suggest this branch of
industry might have developped there in the Archaic period. Phoenician influences
might have been responsible for it.
Corning back to Cracow model it should be noted what follows: The model be-
longs to the rare Cyprian terracotta objects from the VI c. B.C. found above all in
the graves of people probably connected with the sea. Together with the findings
of the same type published so far it provides an interesting materiał to study not
merely the burial customs in Cyprus in the Archaic period but also the history of
navigation and shipbuilding in the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea Basin.
Two objects from the Polish collections analogous to that discussed in this paper
are worth mentioned here: 1. the model of a transport boat with a ąuadruped re-
presented in its inside (before the World War II it was at Gołuchów. At the mo-
ment its fate is unknown); 2. the model of a war ship from the Czartoryskie Collec-
tion (National Museum in Cracow, not published).
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