THE LUSTROUS
WARES OF LB
Scientific Programme
Manfred Bietak
Introductory note: The Meaning of the Lustrous
Wares for the Chronology of the 2nd Millennium B. C.
Session I: Red
Lustrous Wheelmade Ware
Chair:
When did Red Lustrous Wheel-Made Ware First Occur in the
Red Lustrous Wheelmade
Ware from Kalavasos
Contextualising the Lustrous Wares at Enkomi:
settlement and mortuary deposition during LCI–LCIIB
Using Cypriot Red Lustrous Wheel-made Ware to establish Cultural and
Chronological Synchronisms during the Late Bronze Age
Session II: Red
Lustrous Wheelmade Ware and Analyses
Chair: Annie Caubet
Comparative Analysis of the Distribution Patterns of RLW-m Ware and Mycenean Pottery in the
Trading and using RLW-m ware in
Organic residue analysis of Red Lustrous
Wheel-made Ware from five sites in the
Red Lustrous Wheelmade
Ware from Hittite Contexts
The Origin(s) of the Red Lustrous
Ware? – Again!
Session III: Black und
White Lustrous Wares
Chair:
9.30-10:00
The Chronology of BLWM Ware in
Black and Red Lustrous Wheel-made Wares from
Tell el-Ajjul
New Data on the Grey and Black Lustrous Wheel Made Ware in the Light of
New Petrographic Analysis – Typology, Provenance,
Chronology and Distribution
A Rare Species: Provisional Observations on the Chronological
Significance of White Lustrous Ware
Session IV: Lustrous
and Comparative Wares
Chair: Robert S. Merrillees
The significance of the Lustrous Ware finds from Tell el-Dab’a/’Ezbet Helmi (
Base Ring as a Lustrous ware:
Observations on some Base Ring I vessels
from Alalakh
Brownish Burnished Ware from Meskene/Emar
Anatolian Gray Ware in