Jolanta Młynarczyk has identified a specific ware among the finds made on the island of Geronisos off the coast of South-western Cyprus. She called it “Pink Powdery Ware” and noted that the ware was apparently closely connected with Cypriot Sigillata (Eastern Sigillata D) “both in terms of repertoire of forms and of the fabric”. Młynarczyk characterized the ware as "local to the region of Agios Georgios and Peyia" or possibly imported from "a place easily connected with Agios Georgios, most probably situated in western Cyprus". This ware was used by potters to make a wide range of open and closed shapes – plates and dishes, bowls, kraters, kyathoi, jugs, amphoriskoi, lagynoi, oinochoe, and table amphorae....
“Pink Powdery Ware” has a distinctive, “pronounced pinkish tinge, very soft ‘powdery’ surface [which] contrasts with [a] fairly hard body” fired to “pink or deep pink with orangeish, reddish or brownish tint. The clay colour is most often “5YR 6/6 and 7/6, 5YR 6/4 and 7/4, sometimes also 2.5YR 6/4 and 6/6, 7.5YR 7/4 and 7/6.” A hard baked version of this ware is also found. The surface is soft and slightly paler than the fabric; it is o...
Geronisos Island (Cyprus/Western South Coast)