Vessel Registration Number:

HST L248-1

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Hala Sultan Tekke, Dromola...

c.1500 to c.1050 BCE

Bowl

Cyprus/Eastern coast

Late Cypriot

Dining/Drinking/Serving

Description

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In
the Late Bronze Age, this petro fabric was used to produce White Painted Wheel
Made Ware, Plain White Painted Ware, White-Shaved, Bucchero and Mycenean style
vessels. In the Iron Age this petrofabric was used to produce WPWM and well as
Cypriot Bichrome wares. It represents the variety of both Halla Sultan Teke and
Kition Production using different technologies in a range of firing
temperatures.

In a medium to high firing temperatures, the fabric is
yellowish/green (PPL), silty, foraminiferous with some iron oxides and
glauconite. The silt (~10%) is composed mainly of calcareous fragments, mica,
and minerals derived from igneous rocks. The foraminifera in the matrix is
rarely preserved, in some cases, its chambers a...

Thin Section Photos  9

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Bowl
Hala Sultan Tekke
c.1500 to c.1050 BCE
Late Cypriot

Bowl
Hala Sultan Tekke
c.1500 to c.1050 BCE
Late Cypriot

Bowl
Hala Sultan Tekke
c.1500 to c.1050 BCE
Late Cypriot

Bowl
Hala Sultan Tekke
c.1500 to c.1050 BCE
Late Cypriot

Break Photos  3


Bowl
Hala Sultan Tekke
c.1500 to c.1050 BCE
Late Cypriot

Bowl
Hala Sultan Tekke
c.1500 to c.1050 BCE
Late Cypriot

Bowl
Hala Sultan Tekke
c.1500 to c.1050 BCE
Late Cypriot

Vessel Images  2


Bowl
Hala Sultan Tekke
c.1500 to c.1050 BCE
Late Cypriot

Bowl
Hala Sultan Tekke
c.1500 to c.1050 BCE
Late Cypriot

Petrographic Sample

Cyprus/ East coast / East coast

some carbonates, basalts, and basaltic minerals

Alluvial soils with minerals derived from both igneous and calcareous formations

Calcareous loamy clay

Associated Kiln/Workshop

Associated Ware/Ware Family

1500-1050 BCE

Late Cypriot