The angle of a keel and the stem of a ship seen on the left side. Steering oar clearly visible on the right end of the sherd. The club-like object pictured underneath the steering-oar is probably the oar blade of one of the oars. The corpse of a man floats in the water between the two ships. This is confirmed by a fish swimming above him. A detail on the chest of the corpse rendered by reserved discs with dots indicates that the person is naked.

The composition is remarkably similar to that of a Geometric krater from the Louvre. Dakoronia identifies this piece as belonging to the same hand that painted the main Kynos krater based on the rendition of the anatomical details of the figures. The style shows some similarity to contemporary pictorial pottery from Iolkos and Lefkandi (Vermeule and Karageorghis 1982: 128-29, 135-137, 140). In the Proto-geometric period east Lokrian pottery continues to show closer affinity to the Thessalo-Euboean tradition.

Dakoronia, F. 1999. “Representations of Sea-battles on Mycenaean Sherds from Kynos,” in H. Tzalas (ed.) Tropis V: 5th International Symposium on Ship Construction in Antiquity, Nauplia, 26, 27, 28 August 1993. Athens: Hellenic Institute for the Preservation of Nautical Traditions, pp. 119-128.

―――. 2006a. “Bronze Age Pictorial Tradition on Geometric Pottery,” in E. Rystedt and B. Wells (eds.) Pictorial Pursuits : Figurative Painting on Mycenaean and Geometric Pottery. Papers from Two International Round-Tablw Conferences on Mycenaean Pictorial Pottery at the Swedish Institute at Athens in 1999 and 2001. Stockholm: Paul Åström Förlag, pp. 171-175.

―――. 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.