Review: The Second Annual Vounous Terracotta Symposium

Abstract

Rauf Ersenal has hiked through the mountains of North Cyprus for years, searching for the rare clays that have been used to make pottery there for millennia. The most prized colours of these clays produce a soft green that is the colour of fresh olives, the bright red of terra sigiliata, and another clay that creates a true black. He processes these clays to recreate the coloured slips that were used for decorating the Bronze Age Vounous pottery of Çatalköy.

Keywords

• ceramics
• event
• bronze age
• cyprus