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Black-on-Red ware

Also called BoR, Black on Red, Cypro-Phoenician

Objects

185

Date

c. 850–310 BCE

Red-slipped, burnished juglets and bowls with fine black painted circles. The old label 'Cypro-Phoenician' is a misnomer: the ware is Cypriot. Gjerstad's stages run I (III) to V (VII); the floruit is CG III to CA I.

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Black-on-Red Ware

Black-on-Red is a Cypriot Iron Age wheel-made fine ware with black geometric decoration on a burnished red slip, widely exported from about 900 BCE.