General Information

Ionian Archaic Band-Painted Wares represent a widely produced and long-lived family of simple painted tablewares. The main shape was a wide, shallow bowl with concentric circles painted in a dark brown to brownish red paint, generally applied directly to a smoothed, unslipped surface. The Ionian versions are very similar to Kelenderis Band-Painted ware vessels, produced at the site of Kelenderis, in Cilicia.

The tradition of band-painted bowls remained popular in Anatolia well into Hellenistic times, both along the Ionian coast and into central Anatolia. Hellenistic-era productions include Ionian Hellenistic Delicate Banded Ware, West Anatolian Hellenistic Banded Ware, and Central Anatolian Hellenistic Banded Ware.

Gordion (Turkey/Central)

Kyme (Turkey/Aegean)