Here four rowers, standing to their oars, impel a vessel having for prow the head of a horse and for stern the tail of a fish, both of them rising high above the water.

The oars are curved, like golf or hockey-sticks, and are worked from the gunwale of the bark, though there is no indication of rowlocks.

The vessel is without a rudder; but it has a mast, supported by two ropes which are fastened to the head and stern.

The mast has neither sail nor yard attached to it, but is crowned by what is called a "crow's nest"-- a bell-shaped receptacle, from which a slinger or archer might discharge missiles against an enemy.[94] A vessel of considerably greater size than this, but of the same class--impelled, that is, by one bank of oars only--is indicated by certain coins, which have been regarded by some critics as Phoenician, by others as belonging to Cilicia.[95] These have a low bow, but an elevated stern; the prow exhibits a beak, while the stern shows signs of a steering apparatus; the number of the oars on each side is fifteen or twenty.

The Greeks called these vessels triaconters or penteconters.
They are represented without any mast on the coins, and thus seem to have been merely row-boats of a superior character.
About the time of Sennacherib (B.C.