At the end of the Late Bronze Age, the upheavals that precipitated social collapse in the Aegean, Anatolia, Syria-Palestine and Egypt also reached Cyprus. In the Iron Age, urban society reemerged. The pottery of Iron Age Cyprus, unlike the pottery of the Cypriot Bronze Age, was mass produced in a standard range of shapes and wares. Potters often took considerably less care with their work, and as a result the finished products were more homogenous and frequently flawed in minor ways. Iron Age Cypriot pottery was none the less colorful and often elaborately painted with geometric or figural motifs. Intricate "Free-field" compositions graced juglets and jars; examples of some Free-field designs can be seen on the back wall of the case in the photo. The figures show both realistic and fantastic patterns. Ubiquitous concentric circles were applied to jars, juglets, bowls and kraters using a multiple brush. Finer wares like plates, bowls and jugs were made on the fast wheel, while larger forms like amphoras, amphoroid kraters and pithoi were built with a combination of techniques: wheel throwing, hand coiling or molding.