Black-on-Red goods
The modern term black-on-red ware is used in research to describe a form of Phoenician and Cypriot ceramics .
Black-on-Red-Ware differs from the bichromes ware, which were also widespread in Cyprus and Phenicia at the same time . The painter applied the pictures to a red-colored, mostly polished, coating on the clay in black color. The ceramic form was created in Cyprus towards the end of the period known as Zypro-Geometric II (before 850 BC). Nevertheless, it is derived from an Eastern Phoenician prototype called Local Black-on-Red . The typical ceramic shape in Cyprus is a small, single-handled jug with a neck rib, which was used as an oil bottle or votive jug. This form also goes back to a Phoenician model. Typical Cypriot forms such as amphoriskus , oinochoe and shell also appear, but less often. This pottery was widespread in the eastern Mediterranean, but only rarely found in the western region.
literature
- Roald F. Docter: Black-on-Red-Ware. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 2, Metzler, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-476-01472-X , Sp. 706.
