115-122

Incised representations of ships on theran wall-painting

Σύμμεικτα

• Τελεβάντου, Χριστίνα Α.

Our knowledge of shipbuilding in the Middle and Late Bronze Ages was unexpectedly enriched by the representations of 23 ships or boats in the miniature frieze from the West House at Akrotiri on Thera. To these must now be added two representations of ships (figs 1, 4) that had been incised on fragments of the fresco with the procession male figures from Xesti 4.These new depictions are the work of children or youths, as some other incisions on the same fresco show (fig. 6), and make it clear that their authors werefamiliar both with the picture and with the ships themselves. From the iconographie similarities between these depictions and those in the miniature frieze (figs 2, 3, 5) it is also clear that these children most probably had in mind the miniature frieze or some other frescos with similar subjects. Finally, it must be acknowledged that the children or adolescents who drew the two Xesti 4 ships were clever at drawing, and were thus able with relative ease to borrow subjects from the painting of the adults, in a general way, of course.

• History and Archaeology
• Arts

• Αρχαιολογία
• Mural painting and decoration
• Bronze age

Περιέχει σχέδια