Cyprus/Eastern coast
Late Cypriot
Dining/Drinking/Serving
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...
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
Peter Fischer and
Teresa Bürge, The Collapse of Bronze Age Societies In The Eastern
Mediterranean: Sea Peoples in Cyprus? The University of Gothenburg, Department
of Historical Studies.The Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), project
no. 2015-01192.