General Information

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.

Tell es-Safi/Gath (Israel-Palestinian Authority/Southern Coastal Plain)