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A Preliminary Analysis of Medieval Ship Graffiti on Cyprus bs_bs_bannerbs_bs_banner The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology (2017) 46.2: 346–381 doi: 10.1111/1095-9270.12269 Seamen on Land? A Preliminary Analysis of Medieval Ship Graffiti on Cyprus Stella Demesticha Department of History and Archaeology, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus Katerina Delouca Independent Researcher Mia Gaia Trentin STARC, The Cyprus Institute; NCSA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Nikolas Bakirtzis STARC, The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus Andonis Neophytou Department of History and Archaeology, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus This article reports on the results of a research project entitled ‘KARAVOI. The Ship Graffiti on the Medieval Monuments of Cyprus: Mapping, Documentation and Digitisation’, during which 233 ship graffiti were recorded in 44 different monuments on the island, dating from the 15th to the 20th centuries. Innovative recording techniques have been used to mitigate the effects of the subjective or partial recording of graffiti lines on tracing paper. Apart from the study of ship graffiti as iconographic sources, particular emphasis has been given to their geographical and social context through a comprehensive analysis of the graffiti types and their spatial distribution in the monuments as well as the monuments location on the island. © 2017 The Authors Key words: ship iconography, ship graffiti, Cyprus, churches, graffiti documentation. ictorial graffiti in archaeological and 1987). Bucherie (1992) has classified ships—together architectural contexts are drawings of with humans, animals, vegetables, structures and P unsophisticated character, often carved with a architecture, clothes, utensils or tools, and vehicles—as sharp tool on various surfaces—plaster, stone, ceramic, designs related to the life experiences of their author. or wood—by people that frequented public spaces, Artzy (1999: 21–22) considered graffiti found in sacred places, workspaces or prisons (Bucherie, 1992: churches or temples as ex votos, tokens of thanks, 47; Le Bon, 1995: 172; Baird and Taylor, 2011: 1–3). prayer, protection, or vows to some divinity. She These informal and rapidly executed iconographic also suggested that ships engraved in baths, streets, representations of diverse aspects of daily life represent or working places may just be drawings scratched unique testimonies of thoughts or messages expressed to pass the time. Similarly, Christensen (1995: 184) directly by their carvers; as such, they represent a saw such contexts studied in Scandinavian sites as valuable source for the study of past societies (Keegan, the work of men who lived in maritime societies 2014: 4–15). and thus had a strong interest in ships, whereas Nautical, maritime, or simply ship graffiti (SG) Le Bon (1995) noticed some repetitive motifs, such have a particular place in the scholarship of maritime as the ship’s bow, and argued that they were used archaeologists, having been extensively used as to communicate concepts, not to depict real ships. an iconographic source (see for example Basch, Westerdahl (2013: 337) suggested the term ‘carvings’ © 2017 The Authors. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology © 2017 The Nautical Archaeology Society. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK and 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA. STELLA DEMESTICHA ET AL.: GRAFFITI: ANALYIS OF MEDIEVAL SHIP GRAFFITI ON CYPRUS was more appropriate, especially for representations of on all information pertinent to SG: the ship types, ships found on religious monuments, because the word their spatial arrangement in the monuments, the graffito, having an ‘illicit, casual and nonconformist monuments themselves and their distribution on the aspect’, expresses an aprioriinterpretation. As we island, as well as the people that incised these ships on demonstrate below, however, not all ships carved on the walls. the walls of churches should be classified as votive; Although quantitative results were an important thus we maintain the term graffito in this paper. part of the KARAVOI project, they were treated A significant number of SG has been recorded with caution since graffiti are particularly vulnerable in many western Mediterranean countries (see also and their preservation depends on random variables. Bucherie and Gonzalez,´ 2000): Spain (Gonzalez´ and First of all, walls with preserved plaster, that is the Pastor, 1993; Gonzalez´ Gozalo, 2006, 2017; Hermanns, surface where many of the graffiti were executed, 2010; Barrera Maturana, 2011), France (David, 1965; are very rare in the archaeological record, especially Auger-Sergent, 1996), Malta (Cassar, 1966; Muscat, that of antiquity; it is mainly monumental structures 1997), and Italy (Bonino, 1975; Helms, 1975; Arduini that preserve walls much higher than the floor level. and Grassi, 2002). They have been found in monuments Examples from Pompeii (Langner, 2001: 391–466), of different character, such as caves, temples, public Zeugma (Benefiel and Coleman, 2013), Delos (Basch, buildings, fortifications, churches, prisons, and private 1985; Pomey, 1992) or Akko (Kahanov and Stern, houses, dating to various periods, from the 3rd 2008), however, show that graffiti also abounded in millennium BC onwards (Basch, 1987). In the eastern public spaces and on private houses, but the walls of Mediterranean, ancient SG have attracted the attention such buildings are seldom well preserved. Perhaps this of several scholars (for example Doumas, 1965; Basch, is the reason behind the very large chronological gap 1987; Basch and Artzy, 1985; Artzy, 1999; Langdon and in the history of ship graffiti on the island, between Van de Moortel, 1997; Pomey, 2006; Van de Moortel the Bronze Age and medieval examples documented and Langdon, 2017) but those from medieval and during the KARAVOI project. On Cyprus, it seems that later contexts have been recorded only sporadically, as medieval SG have been preserved mainly on religious for example those from the Black Sea (Emetz, 1995; buildings and only on those walls that were not exposed Ocharov, 1995), Cyprus, Israel (Kahanov et al., 2008; to decay or weathering, and that have not undergone Kahanov, 2011) and various areas in Greece: Attiki major repairs; unrecorded graffiti can go unnoticed (Getakos, 1956; Meinardus, 1970–1972; Basch, 1978; and thus be accidentally destroyed during restoration Delouca, 2000; Damianidis, 2011); Aegina (Basch, works. 1986; Delouca, 1990, 1996); Mystras (Orlandos, 2000: Another important factor taken into consideration 72–73, fig. 44) and Thessaloniki (Koniordos and for data analysis was that the KARAVOI project Pelekanidou, 2001; Babuin and Nakas, 2011; Krapf was not extended to the occupied part of Cyprus. In and Nakas, 2017). More SG have appeared in diverse our database, however, we have included some graffiti publications with a broader scope, concerning ship documented by others in this region (Fig. 1). Brunhilde iconography (see Pryor, 1988: 25–86; Wachsmann, Imhaus and the Department of Antiquities have kindly 1998: 123–158) or graffiti in general (Langner, 2001: 67– given us permission to digitize drawings of graffiti from 70; Keegan, 2014: 235–236). Bellapais Abbey, the churches of Saint George of the Greeks and Saint Nicolas, in Famagusta, as well as Saint Sophia in Nicosia. In addition, photographs and Ship graffiti and the KARAVOI project drawings from two more churches from the occupied On Cyprus, carved ships were found on monumental part of the Famagusta District, Saint Panteleimon and buildings dated as early as the Late Bronze Age, Saint Minas, were kindly given to us by Andreas Foulias in Kition (Basch and Artzy, 1985) and Enkomi and Christodoulos Christodoulou. As a result and (Schaeffer, 1952: 102); after that period, they have been despite our hope for a holistic approach to the ship- documented mainly in medieval and later contexts graffiti phenomenon on Cyprus, we have no coherent (Imhaus, 2001; Walsh, 2007; Trentin, 2007; Bollon data from a considerable part of the northern and and Imhaus, 2009; Trentin, 2010; Michail, 2015; eastern parts of the island. Demesticha, forthcoming). Given their remarkable number and diversity, the Maritime Archaeological Research Laboratory, Department of History and Documentation methodology Archaeology, University of Cyprus, in collaboration With the above in mind, particular emphasis was given with the Cyprus Institute and the Department of to the programme’s database, so that it could allow Antiquities, initiated a research project in 2014, funded for a comprehensive analysis of graffiti on the island. by the Leventis Foundation and entitled ‘KARAVOI’1: Different forms of data have been collected, concerning The Ship Graffiti on the Medieval Monuments of everything from the ships and their types, any non- Cyprus: Mapping, Documentation and Digitisation’. nautical graffiti found on the monuments, the buildings The programme aimed to provide a comprehensive themselves and the wall surfaces where the graffiti are analysis of the SG phenomenon on the island, based carved, as well as spatial data, both for each graffito in © 2017 The Authors. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology © 2017 The Nautical Archaeology Society. 347 NAUTICAL ARCHAEOLOGY, 46.2 Figure 1. Map of Cyprus with the location of surveyed monuments for the KARAVOI project (Map and GIS by Niki Kyriakou, University of Cyprus). the monument and for each graffiti-monument on the 180, fig.1). The differences between the two drawings island. (Fig. 2b, c) led
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