Greek ship colours, patterns and other details

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The only know emblem from herodotus and Thukidides is "Samena" - the bronze ram in the shape of a boar.
It is stronngly associated with the vessels of Samos.
The Corinthian and Athenian vessels in their majority had the ram of the style of Olympias.
Archeological evidence supports it.
An educated gues is that Sikyonian vessels had a goats head shaped ram.

You could try and get a better image of this:
http://sikyon.com/Korinth/Pottery/korinth_peg01.html (Dolphin-shaped ram)

Samean attacked by a bireme with dolphin shaped ram:
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f? ... db79622cbc


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