Immaculate Conception of Our Lady - Malta Ship Graffiti Project

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Immaculate Conception of Our Lady

Region	Western
Building type	Place of Worship
Address	Kuncizzjoni Chapel, Mġarr, Malta
Located Graffiti	Anthropomorphic, Apotropaic Symbols, Dates, Names or Initials, Numbers, Ship Graffiti, Symbols, Text

This chapel dedicated to the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady is located in Gerżuma Valley in the outskirts of Mġarr. The chapel was built in 1736 on the initiative of the Grandmaster Antonio Manoel de Vilhena.

Gallery

A more complex representation of a ship showing three rows of canon ports and the ship’s hull planking. The stern is decorated and a bowsprit is complete with shrouds and forestays. The ship is two-masted carrying lateen rigging.

A stylistic representation of a two-masted ship which was covered in plaster then exposed. The ship exhibits two masts with square sail rigging. The hull of the ship is sectioned by sequential squares, all perforated by a dot. An inscription has been etched on the bottom-most extremity of the graffito.