Eastern Pink Ware is a red-slipped fine ware of unknown origin, possibly Cypriot. Kathleen Slane identified it in her study of the fine ware from Tel Anafa, in northern Israel, where it is the second most common fine ware in that site's early-mid 1st c. CE loci (ESA being the most common). Early Roman Eastern Pink Ware has a fine, somewhat powdery fabric, pink-red in color (10R 6-6/8). Vessels are fully covered in a semi-lustrous red slip (2.5YR 4/8), applied by double dipping.
INAA analysis conducted at MURR demonstrated that Early Roman Eastern Pink Ware is chemically distinct from Cypriot sigillata (see Slane 1997, p. 394, Fig. 1), although a Cypriot source for Eastern Pink Ware does remain possible. If it was made on...
Early Roman Eastern Pink Ware has a fine, somewhat powdery fabric, pink-red in color (10R 6-6/8). There are a moderate number of fine white inclusions, which are probably lime, and sparse, rounded, dark red inclusions. Vessels are fully covered in a semi-lustrous red slip (2.5YR 4/8), applied by double dipping. The slip can be patchy or fugitive, and sometimes wears off in large patches.