The cup has two panels between the handles, each containing the silhouette of a ship to the left. Very low flat hull, massive square bow with a concave post integrating the bow projection, and a very high curving stem with an aftercastle and two steering-oars. The stempost terminates in a horn that inclines slightly forward, then sharply backwards parallel to the hull. The single horizontal line above the hull represents the railing, with the two connected by 12 vertical strokes which protrude above the line to depict tholepins. The aftercastle is drawn as a rectangle with three horizontal lines dividing it. It appears attached to the sternpost and suggests an open balustrade with horizontal rails.

The shape is very similar to the Eleusis vessel, except that the bow is drawn as an even thicker rectangle. The vertical hatching likely represents a raised railing supported by struts. These verticals form a single line with the tholepins. Tzahou-Alexandri and Wedde interpret them as the frames of the ship, but this seems unlikely considering the style of depicting the vessel in silhouette rather than the so-called x-ray approach. Wedde interprets it as an open-hulled vessel. Once again the painter does not appear to have been very precise with the number of tholepins, presumably this is a 20 oared vessel.

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