Bichrome Red AK

This vessel is of a more unusual type, and is called Bichrome Red Ware. You will see the the biconical body shape is similar to the pot just above; this one has a higher neck and the handles are placed down on the body. The large white "X"s are part of the decoration; Bichrome Red Ware has a red slip applied, then is decorated with both black and white paint. There is also a band of tiny white dots at the base of the pot's neck, below the sets of concentric circles on the neck itself. This style did not begin until the middle of the Iron Age, and may have developed from the influence of the Phoenicians who were living on Cyprus by that period ( as did many of the Iron Age Wares).