Fragment from the lip of a krater or a deep bowl showing the aft part of a ship. Helmsman holding a steering-oar with a loop at its end. End of the sail yard visible above his head.
Naval combat scene
A94
LH IIIC middle
Pyrgos Livanaton (Kynos)
Sherd from a pictorial krater
Lamia Archaeological Museum
Dakoronia 2006b: 27, fig. 4
Similarity with the first Kynos krater suggest the same painter and help to identify the subject as a likely sea-battle..
Dakoronia, F. 2006b. “Mycenaean Pictorial Style at Kynos, East Lokris,” in E. Rystedt and B. Wells (ed.) Pictorial Pursuits: Eigurative Painting on Mycenaean and Geometric Pottery. Paper from Two International Round-Table Conferences on Mycenaean and Geometric Pottery at the Swedish Institute at Athens in 1999 and 200. Stockholm: Svenska Instituted I Athen, pp. 23-29.