Clay boat model
Π3911
Clay
Mended and restored.
Length: 22 cm. Maximum width: 4.3 cm.
Palaikastro
Cemetery, Sta Ellinika site
Early Bronze Age. Prepalatial period, Early Minoan II period.:
2700 - 2200 BC:
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Early Bronze Age - Prepalatial period (3000 - 1900 BC). Settlements and cemeteries - the rise of ruling groupsThe sea roads. Trade and foreign influences
Description
Clay boat model found in a funerary building in Palaikastro. No traces of burials were found in the chamber in which the boat was discovered, together with vases, so it may have been placed there following a funerary ritual. The boat is a long, narrow, shallow oared vessel, known from boat models and incised depictions on “frying pans” from the Early Bronze Age Cyclades and Crete. The Palaikastro model, with a high stempost at one end and a sort of beaked prow at the other, is the only three-dimensional depiction of a boat which accurately renders the characteristics of Cycladic longboats. The longest of these are thought to have measured 15-20 metres. These boats could travel long distances across the Aegean, but they only had limited cargo space. They were the chief means of transporting people and goods in the Aegean until the end of the 3rd millennium BC.Bibliography:
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