Pottery spouted 'krater' (large bowl) with a depiction of and ship of the era. Athenian Geometric, 735-720 BCE. From Thebes.
Exhibited at the British Museum. London. UK.
From the museum label:
Pottery spouted 'krater' (large bowl)
The scene shows a man grasping a woman by the wrist as he turns towards a ship with two rows of oarsmen. This may be an early representation of myth; for example, Theseus fleeing Crete with Ariadne, or Paris abducting Helen, the ultimate cause of the Trojan War.
If the female figure is Ariadne, she may be holding the crown of light with which she illuminated the labyrinth in some versions of the myth. If she is Helen, then the two charioteers seen on the other side of the bowl along with a mounted horseman could be her brothers, Kastor and Polydeukes.