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Bichrome Red ware

Also called Bichrome Red, BiR

Objects

40

Date

c. 750–310 BCE

Red-slipped wheelmade ware painted in black and white, Gjerstad's Bichrome Red I (IV) to IV (VII). The bracketed numeral is the overall Type; some finds push the start back into CG III.

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Bichrome Red Ware

Bichrome Red is the Cypriot Iron Age wheel-made ware with black and added white paint on a red slip, the sister ware of Black-on-Red.