Samaria goods
As Samaria goods is a Iron Age ceramic genus of Phoenician Levante referred.
Samaria goods is a modern technical term that arose on the basis of ceramics found in the city of Samaria . However, Samara is an atypical site for this type of ceramic. The luxury dishes typical of the Iron Age and the Phoenician Levant are very thin-walled. Key forms are keeled bowls and bowls. They were produced with the help of shaped bowls. They were decorated with incised lines. The vases were covered in red-slip style , although a zone was usually left out and left with a clay background. Ceramic specimens have been found in the oldest archaeological layers of the Phoenician settlements in Cyprus and Carthage . Local imitations of the Samaria goods were also found in Carthage.
literature
- Patricia Maynor Bikai: The Pottery of Tire , Aris & Phillips Ltd, Warminster 1978, pp. 26-29 ISBN 0856681083 .
- Roald F. Docter : Samaria-Ware , in Der Neue Pauly Vol. 10 (2001), Col. 4.
- Gerta Maass-Lindemann: Oriental imports from Morro de Mezquitilla ( Madrider Forschungen 31) (1990), pp. 169-177.