A full-length polychrome quarter gallery carving of a young woman in scale armour and a seaweed skirt and sleeves. The seaweed replaces the stiffened leather pteruges, or armour strips, that protected the upper legs and upper arms of ancient Greek and Roman soldiers. She holds two fish in her left hand and a fishing net slung over her left shoulder and held in place across her chest by her right hand. The woman has long brown hair, loose down her back, blue eyes and is barefoot with the left leg slightly bent.

It is unclear which Greco-Roman goddess she represents, but these attributes suggest one of the many sea nymphs of ancient mythology. The carving may be a stern carving rather than a figurehead, providing further evidence of how decoration emphasised particular visual narratives.