Ship to the left. Crescentic hull with a pointed left extremity (stempost). The right post is higher and ends in multiple bifurcations (sternpost). Amidships there is a small semicircular construction. Wachsmann hypothesises that it is possible that the scribe was using a representation of a ship from his Linear B ideographic repertoire, itself derived from a ship type that was no longer commonly used. We know however that the Minoan ship (Type IV) continued in use at Pylos for ceremonial purposes, given that it is also attested from contemporary frescoes.

Written by the master scribe (Pylos Hand 1). The tablet shares vocabulary and place names with PY An 1. Four locations in the hither province are noted: ro-o-wa (line 1), a-ke-re-wa (line 9), wo-qe-we (line 13), ri-jo (line 14). The first and the last of these locations appear in the same order on consecutive lines in PY An 1. The first sections (lines 1-8) lists rowers who are absent (a-pe-o-te) from ro-o-wa. Del Freo has argued that these rowers were absent not because they had been excused from rowing service by their patrons, but rather because these settlers had been exempted from their other activities in order to perform their obligatory naval service (Del Freo 2002-2003: 153-164). This suggestion is supported by the correspondence between the total number of 8 rowers absent from ro-o-wa in An 724 and the 8 rowers recorded to originate from ro-o-wa said to be on their way to Pleuron in PY An 1. According to Palaima, "It is now clear that the design on the verso of the tablet, previously thought to resemble phonogram *35, is in fact also a sketch of a ship, executed no doubt by the scribe whose imagination drifted seaward because of his assignment on the recto, recording rowers missing at ro-o-wa*."(Palamia 1991: 287).

Line 4: specifies that one of the men is a "settler" who is "obligated to row."

Lines 5-6: list five more men "obligated to row" who have an association with the important person E-ke-ra-wo.

Line 7: man connected with the ra-wa-ke-ta ("military leader")

Line 8: another man

Line 9: lists individual men, at least one of them being associated with e-qe-ta ("followers") who were apparently high level administrative officials.

Line 14: possibly lists the largest single group of missing rowers (10+) at the site of ri-jo

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