Of Ships and Deer: early Western Mediterranean ship graffiti reappraised |
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| Authors: | Francesco Tiboni |
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| Affiliation: | ATENA CuMaNa – c/o Università di Genova, Stradone Sant'Agostino 37 – Genova, Italy |
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| Abstract: | Re‐analysis of the Hal Tarxien prehistoric ship graffiti, the incised figure on a pottery sherd, from the Neolithic site of Grapceva cave on a Croatian island, known as the ‘Hvar boat’, and the Villanovian‐Etruscan bronze razor from Bologna allow the last two to be reinterpreted as animals rather than ships, and the first to be dated to the Bronze Age Cemetery phase of the site. These findings require the earliest ship graffiti in the western Mediterranean to be reconsidered. |
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| Keywords: | Hal Tarxien Hvar boat bronze razor Bologna ship graffiti Bronze Age |
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