Cypriot Black Slip | The Levantine Ceramics Project

Ware/Ware Family/Style: Cypriot Black Slip

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Name, Geographic and Chronological Range

Name:

Cypriot Black Slip

Country/region of ware origin:

Cyprus/Kyrenia Mountains and North Coast

Date BCE/CE:

1750 BCE - 1450 BCE

Period:

Middle Cypriot III, Late Cypriot I

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General Information and Description

General Information
Description

Handmade, sandy fabric, usually fired so that the fabric is a light tan to gray color, covered with a thin slip normally fired black (sometimes leaving reserved areas unslipped) [similar to Cypriot Red Slip of the same time period]

Vessels 18

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Kourion 49-12-527

Amphora

Kourion/Episkopi, Kaloriziki

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Cypro-Geometric II

Kourion 49-12-525

Jug, footed, narrow neck

Kourion/Episkopi, Kaloriziki

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Cypro-Geometric II

Kourion 49-12-528

Amphora

Kourion/Episkopi, Kaloriziki

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Cypro-Geometric II

Kourion 49-12-107

Jug, trefoil

Kourion/Episkopi, Bamboula

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Middle Cypriot III, Late Cypriot I

Break Photos 0

Petrographic Samples 0

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Earlier/Alternative Names

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Site Distribution

Cyprus

Idalion (Cyprus/Eastern Mesoria)

Kourion/Episkopi, Bamboula (Cyprus/Western South Coast)

Kourion/Episkopi, Kaloriziki (Cyprus/Western South Coast)

Lapithos, Upper Cemetery (Cyprus/Kyrenia Mountains and North Coast)

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Associated Petrofabrics

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Associated Kilns/Workshops

Phlamoudhi-Melissa

Country/region:

Cyprus/Kyrenia Mountains and North Coast

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Bibliography

Åström, Paul. The Swedish Cyprus Expedition Vol. IV Part 1B: The Middle Cypriote Bronze Age. Lund: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1972
Åström, Paul. The Swedish Cyprus Expedition Vol. IV Part 1C: The Late Cypriote Bronze Age, Architecture and Pottery. Lund: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1972
Smith, Joanna S. Guide to Phlamoudhi. New York: Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University in the City of New York, 2005
Smith, Joanna S. "Settlement to Sanctuary at Phlamoudhi-Melissa" in Views from Phlamoudhi, Cyprus, ed(s). Joanna S. Smith. Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 63. Boston: American Schools of Oriental Research, 2008, 45-68

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Discussion/Acknowledgements

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