Ware · Family · in Early and Middle Bronze Age wares

Red Polished ware

Also called RP, Red Polished, Red-Polished

Objects

585

Date

c. 2400–1650 BCE

Handmade ware with a red slip burnished to a sheen, often incised and white-filled; the dominant Cypriot ware of the Early and Middle Bronze Age.

In the Compendium

Red Polished Ware

Red Polished is the hand-made, red-slipped and burnished pottery that dominated Cyprus in the Early and Middle Bronze Age.