This petrofabric represents has main variants, namely calcareous and red loamy clays. The calcareous clay is argillaceous, with some foraminifera, greenish-brown to orange in PPL with some silt (~10%) composed mostly of quartz and micas (mainly biotite). The aplastic components are mostly poorly-sorted iron-rich mudstone, iron shale, basalt, and mica schist, ~10% up to 300µm. Though not exclusively, this is a common fabric for WP vessels, sampled in Cyprus and at Dor. In the iron-rich loamy group, the fabric is argillaceous, brown in PPL, with some silt (~5%), composed mostly of quartz and mica (mainly biotite) and a few fragments of shell and foraminifera. The aplastic components are mainly mudstone/shales, quarzitic mudstones and, on rare occasions, eroded basalt (15% up to 150µm). In the Iron Age, This was a common fabric of BoR vessels, but it is also attested in WP vessels according to the material sampled from Kouklia. The Paphian ceramics examined (both BoR and other wares) were fired at high temperatures only in their iron-rich variant, as opposed to the calcareous variant, which is attested in Cyprus as either high or low fired. Similar fabrics were noted in pithoi from Late Cypriot Paphos (Nodarou 2017; 2019) and in various LC IIC/IIIA vessels that reached Hala Sultan Tekke (PWB, pers. obs.). Similar mineralogical features can also be seen in Hellenistic pottery from Nea Paphos 

Iron Age ceramics: calcareous river clays and iron-rich terra rossa soils (cf. Brodie and Steel 1996). River clays were collected from the Dhiarizos River that flows west of the site. In PPL, the clay is ‘clayey’ and brown to green, with some foraminifera and silt (~30%). Some fragments of mica schist and iron oxides and poorly-sorted basaltic and small metamorphic rock fragments and iron shales (mudstones) were observed (~10% up to 1mm).

Tel Dor (Israel/Carmel coastal plain)