The craft is represented by a single crescentic line inside which two figures stand upright and appear to be rowing. The left figure holds a line in his right hand that is probably a fishing line since it appears to lead to the mouth of the fish below the boat. This makes a lot more sense than suggesting that he is holding two oars. The craft is too schematic to be of any usefulness in terms of analyzing morphology.

The belly handled amphora is a trademark shape of PWP and WP I. The pictorial treatment of this vase breaks the rules of PWP syntax by replacing the typical band of geometric motifs on the shoulder with a frieze of large fish and two figures in a small boat, making the decoration unique. The boat is much smaller than the fish and is located on the upper part of the frieze on the shoulder, above one of the handles.

This is one of the few representations of a small boat and is very likely a fishing scene. Not only is the decoration unparalleled, but the human figure so far occurs on only four out of fourteen pictorial PWP vases. Fishing scenes are known from a 12^th century hydria from Naxos (Hadjianastasiou 1996: 1439, pls. I-II) and an LH IIIC krater from Kynos (Dakoronia and Kounouklas 2015: fig. 9).

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