The Cypro-Cilician Painted wares form a ware-group with a common repertoire of vessel shapes and decorative motives. Subtypes were previously often distinguished according to their color schemes: (1.) dark or red paint on buff (“White Painted”), (2.) dark and red paint on buff (“Bichrome”), (3.) dark paint on red (“Black-on-Red”). It is the predominant decorated ware in Cilicia in the Middle Iron Age but occurs in the Early Iron Age and in the Late Iron Age to a lesser extent alongside other decorated wares. Even though most specimens are serving vessels/tablewares, transport and storage vessels decorated thus are not uncommon.
The ware group shows strong similarities with Cypriot Pottery but is also influenced by fore...
The range of the Cypro-Cilician wares is commonly classified accoring to the combination of surface-color and painting color. "White-Painted" describes a dark brown, dark red or black paint on a slipped or clay surface ranging from white over tan, buff and light brown to light red. The "Bichrome" group shows an additional paint color ranging from orange over red to a dark purple red. In rare occasions the color of paint is exclusively red. "Black on Red" describes red slipped vessels wi...
Sirkeli Höyük (Turkey/Eastern Mediterranean)