The cypro-phoenician pottery of the Iron Age, 2002, 384 p., 32 ill., rel. -

For almost a century scholars have been perplexed by cypro-phoenician (or black-and-red) pottery. In this major study, Dr. Schreiber's research, coupled with her own work in the field, resolves the pottery's origin and provides a fresh assessment of the chronology of the region. Transporting perfumed oil around the Mediterranean and Near East, the pottery offers valuable clues to Iron Age - shipping, cargoes, and trading entrepots. Dr. Schreiber investigates the sources of perfumed oil and the relative roles of Cyprus and Phoenicia in trade to the Aegan islands. The book provides archaeologists and historains with the work ok signifiance in unravelling the human narrative of the early centuries on the 1st millenium BC.