The hull fragment is V-shaped in profile. It is too fragmentary to provide any technical insights. The hull morphology favours an identification as a galley, but given how fragmentary the model is and the resultant lack of diagnostic features, its reading is far from certain.

Tomb 17 has eight recorded objects ranging chronologically from LC IB-IIA/ LH IIIA2. These include pottery, stone (tripodic mortar with incised decoration), faience, silver, and gold. The excavation notes mention ivory and faience fragments, a marble double saucer, a small cup with a flat bottom, and a clay bull figurine/askos. This was obviously another rich tomb, as noted by the precious metals, ivory, Mycenaean (boat) and Egyptian (faience bowl with figural decoration) imports. The boat shaped vase has lustrous dark brown paint decoration, including longitudinal lines along the lower hull and gunwale, a ladder-pattern, and what Wedde describes as a "rice-grain-shaped motif" with oblique hatching on either side. There is also incised decoration on the supporting leg which has a pronounced knee and a small foot.

It is worth noting that this is not a ship model but rather a vase in the shape of a ship painted in the Mycenaean tradition. The object is unique.

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