Red Slip Ware is common among the decorated wares of Iron Age Cilicia. Vessels are characteristically coated with a red slip.
During the Middle Iron Age, the Red Slip Ware is closely related to the Black-on-Red Variety of Cypro-Cilician Painted Wares and Fluted Ware as they share some bowl-shapes and seemingly the production technique of the red slip.
As vessels with a red slip had been common throughout the Bronze Age of Cilicia, the local development of the ware as opposed to contacts with Anatolian, Syrian, Cypriot or Levantin...
The most common color of the red slip is 10R 5/6. The thickness of the slip is varying. The surface of the slip can be burnished.
The color of the slip can cary to a dark brown or grey due to a different firing atmosphere. As these vessels are rather common, the variation might have been intentional. But as all other technical characteristics are shared with the red slip ware the two variations shall be trated as one for the time being.
The predominant vessel shape is a sh...
Sirkeli Höyük (Turkey/Eastern Mediterranean)