Single-levelled ship to the right with a low flat hull. Massive rectangular bow with a concave stempost integrating a beak-shaped ram and terminating in an incurving S-shaped horn that curves forward then backward parallel to the hull and flares out toward the tip. There are three short horizontal timbers tapering to a pointed tip projecting from the stermpost. The forecastle is a solid rectangle integrated to the bow. The sternpost begins by rising gradually, then curves sharply inward mid-way after which it becomes straight and tapers towards the end, capped by a rectangular extremity. Three short timbers tapering to a pointed tip project from the base of sternpost. The aftercastle consists of a rail and possibly fitted with a screen, as suggested by the three filler lines. A single quarter rudder with a tiller is shown slightly forward of the aftercastle and widens towards the oar blade into a roughly triangular shape decorated with a lozenge chain. Running the length of the gunwale is a latticed bulwark with the same lozenge chain decoration as that used on the quarter rudder. The ship's hull itself is filled with a scaly pattern that is also used as filler for the bodies of the fishes and the archers alike.

Side A: Thought to depict a mythological scene showing Herakles fighting the Actorione/Moliones Siamese twins with a sword. The twins are depicted as having only one body with two heads, four arms and four legs

Side B: Two archers face off each other, hovering above a ship to the right. Each one is already struck by an arrow in the leg. Three fish swim below.

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