This petro fabric is typical to the Famagusta Bay, on the eastern coast of Cyprus, at the terminal point of the Pedieos River, which crosses the eastern part of the Mesaoria Plain (Fig. 1). The main sources of the sediments in the site’s vicinity are the rivers that flow through the plain between the Kyrenia Range and the Troodos Ophiolite Complex . In the Mesaoria Plain, calcareous sediments are of the Pliocene Nicosia formation; they contain biocalcarenite and rock fragments of the Pleistocene Athalassa formation composed of bioclastic sandstone and shallow marine carbonated bodies (McCallum and Robertson 1995; Robertson et al. 2011). These are covered by Pleistocene fanglomerate deposits containing gravels and sands. In addit...
This petro fabric is largely calcareous, characterized by a green loamy fabric (XPL), with coarse basaltic minerals, iron oxides and calcareous inclusions (It is brown-yellowish in PPL, with some glauconite concretions, iron oxides and silt (~10%). The silt is composed of feldspar fragments, calcareous inclusions and minerals derived from igneous rocks. Biogenic material is scarce, but some poorly-preserved foraminifera are present, surrounded by reaction rims of minerals formed at high temperatures. Other calcareous components are heat-altered and were observed only in larger fragments (over 150μm). The inclusions are comprised of various concentrations of poorly-sorted sub-rounded basalts and basaltic-derived minerals (~15%, up to 600μm). This fabric was employed to produce WP, Bichrome and BoR vessels. Similar calcareous fabrics have been identified in previous research, for example in a Cypro-Minoan tablet found at Enkomi (Goren et al. 2004: pl. 1: Enk 1193+EE2001). These two fabrics also occur among the Late Cypriot pottery of Hala Sultan Tekke and thus probably represent exports from Enkomi to that site (Waiman-Barak, unpublished data). Among the clays sampled by Vaughan in the Famagusta District, the one thin section reproduced in colour is a good comparison for the Salaminian terra rossa group (1987, vol. II: 317, fig. 27a).
This petro fabric is typical to the Famagusta Bay, on the eastern coast of Cyprus, at the terminal point of the Pedieos River, which crosses the eastern part of the Mesaoria Plain (Fig. 1). The main sources of the sediments in the site’s vicinity are the rivers that flow through the plain between the Kyrenia Range and the Troodos Ophiolite Complex . In the Mesaoria Plain, calcareous sediments are of the Pliocene Nicosia formation; they contain biocalcarenite and rock fragments of the...
ca. 1050 BCE - 300 BCE
Cypro-Geometric, Cypro-Archaic, Cypro-Classical
ca. 925/900 BCE - 300 BCE
Cypro-Geometric, Cypro-Archaic, Cypro-Classical
1050 BCE - 300 BCE
Cypro-Geometric, Cypro-Archaic, Cypro-Classical
The Early Iron Age Cypro-Phoenician Interactions: A Study of the Tel Dor Cypro-Geometric Ceramic Imports project is directed Ayelet Gilboa from the University of Haifa and supported by the Israeli Science Foundation. The Typological of the Dor assemblage analysis and collection and preparation of the reference collection for analysis was done by Anna Georgiadou as part of a post-doctoral fellowship directed by Gilboa at the University of Haifa. The laboratory work was conducted at the Laboratory for materials in Archaeology, Group Head: Prof. Sariel Shalev, the department of Maritime Civilizations. The thin section was prepared by Golan Shalvi.
