Gravures représentants un bateau et le profil d'un homme

Marseille (13) - Musée d'Histoire de Marseille

© Denis Glicksman, Inrap, détail de la gravure du bateau

Carved block comes from a Greek monument dismantled by the Romans. A first engraving representing a boat,
It was on board boats of this type that the Phocaean colonists must have arrived to found Massalia in the 6th century BC.
Further on, a representation of a bearded man's profile
6th century BC

Where to find it

Marseille (13) - Musée d'Histoire de Marseille
Square Belsunce

13001 Marseille

Commune of discovery

Marseille

Locality

Alcazar

Type of intervention

Excavation

Year of excavation

1999

Chief Scientist

BOUIRON, Marc

Inventory number

MHM D2013.9.5.1

Scope

Daily life

Materials

Mineral ➔ lapidary

Chronological period

Mediterranean Antiquity [- 600 / - 50] ➔ Hellenistic period

Dimensions

H. 50 cm, L. 2.17 m, P. 25 cm,

To museum documentation

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