The human forms in this design are ill-proportioned, and very rudely traced.

The heads and hands are too large, the faces are grotesque, and the figures wholly devoid of grace.

Mimetic art is seen clearly in its first stage, and the Phoenician artist who has designed the bowl has probably fallen short of his Egyptian models.
Animal and human forms intermixed occur on a silver _patera_ found at Athienau, which is more complicated and elaborate than the objects hitherto described, but which is, like them, strikingly Egyptian.[771] A small rosette occupies the centre; round it is, apparently, a pond or lake, in which fish are disporting themselves; but the fish are intermixed with animal and human forms--a naked female stretches out her arms after a cow; a man clothed in a _shenti_ endeavours to seize a horse.

The pond is edged by papyrus plants, which are alternately in blossom and in bud.

A zigzag barrier separates this central ornamentation from that of the outer part of the dish.