Shephelah Late Bronze-Iron I Painted Ware
Israel-Palestinian Authority/Southern Coastal Plain
1400 BCE - 1000 BCE
Late Bronze Age II, Late Bronze Age III, Iron Age I
General Information
Description
Coarse, very low quality ware, with many inclusions and poorly sifted. Painted with various scenes. Paint is in brown and red in earlier stages (deriving from the earlier, imported Bichrome of the Late Bronze Age I) and usually only red by the LB IIB (13th Century BCE). Tradition continues into the Iron Age I alongside Philistine pottery, although in smaller quantities. Painted decorations include division into triglyphs and metopes, ibexes flanking a palm tree, other animals and plants, or simpler lines, such as "lipstick" - a red line of paint along the rim.
Tell es-Safi/Gath (Israel-Palestinian Authority/Southern Coastal Plain)
