The aft part of a rowing ship with very low hull depicted very schematically by a single trick stripe. Eight vertical lines rising above the gunwale have been interpreted as thole-pins against which the oars were worked. Representations of ships with thole-pins free from the hull are known from BA and Geometric period representations alike (Basch 1987: 176, fig. 368, 187-188, figs. 393-394). The thick line extending from the hull downwards is a steering oar. No evidence of a deck, rail or bulwark. The low hull and numerous oars indicate a warship but without a deck. The sherd thus provides evidence that both types of war-ships were used simultaneously, decked and undecked.

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