These are vessels made in the Shephelah which imitate Cypriot Late Bronze Age pottery. Two forms are produced:
a) Bowls that imitate so-called Cypriot White Slip II milk bowls. This local version is also an open rounded bowl, often with a light slip, which imitates the original white slip of the imports, and a painted "ladder" decoration, made up of brown horizontal and vertical lines.
b) Shaved juglets made with light clay. The local versions do not have the pronounced scrape marks and handle insertion which are indicators of the Cypriot originals.
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These are vessels made in the Shephelah which imitate Cypriot Late Bronze Age pottery. Two forms are produced:
a) Bowls that imitate so-called Cypriot White Slip II milk bowls. This local version is also an open rounded bowl, often with a light slip, which imitates the original white slip of the imports, and a painted "ladder" decoration, made up of brown horizontal and vertical lines.
b) Shaved juglets made with light clay. The local versions do not have the pronounced scrape marks and handle insertion which are indicators of the Cypriot originals.
Gadot, Yuval ; Uziel, Joe; Yassur-Landau, Assaf. "Chapter 12 – The Late Bronze Age Pottery" in Tell es-Safi/Gath I: The 1996 – 2005 Seasons Part 1: Text, ed(s). Aren M. Maeir. Ägypten und altes Testament Studien zu Geschichte, Kultur und Religion Ägyptens und des Alten Testaments 69. Munich: Manfred Görg, 2012, 241-264
Uziel, Joe; Ware/Ware Family: Shephelah Late Bronze Age Imitation Cypriot Ware, The Levantine Ceramics Project, accessed on 08 May 2024, https://www.levantineceramics.org/wares/144-shephelah-late-bronze-age-imitation-cypriot-ware.
