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imported probably from Asia Minor, made of a light brown paste
with substantial quantities of micaceous impurities.
Imported relief mouldmade bowls (“Megarian”) are also
fairly numerous. No locally made bowls, as defined by P. Puppo
(at the 5th International Meeting on Hellenistic Pottery in Chania
(Crete) in Spring 1997) and produced near Nicosia, were found
here. As the available evidence from the House of Dionysos and the
Polish excavations suggests, these bowls did not reach to the
western part of the island. Only imported bowls are found, mostly
from Ephesian workshops (formerly called "Delian"). All of these
should be dated in the second half of the 2nd century BC or in the
beginning of the next. One beautiful example with floral decoration
(fig. 1:5) comes probably from the Apollonios workshop.9
Another group of fine-ware vessels consists of unguentaria.
Several complete or fragmentary spindle-shaped balsamaria dated
to the 2nd or 1st century BC have been found in the cistern.
Last but not least, there is quite a number of relatively well
preserved Eastern Sigillata A vessels.10 Apart from plates form 2
and 4, deep plates form 5A, and wide-rim plates form 6, there were
several footed bowls form 22, mastoid profiled rim bowl form 17B,
hemispherical to ovoid bowl form 18, hemispherical vertically
gouged bowl form 19B, and a pine-cone relief bowl form 24. The
paste of these vessels varies. Nevertheless, they seem homogeneous
when compared with the evident imitations, e.g. of form 23, with
flaky slip and small dark grits.
Generally, the bulk of the sherds belongs to common
domestic wares, of which amphorae constitute the largest group.
They are mostly Rhodian, with a few Cnidian and local,
e.g. Kourion fragments. Some observations were made on the

9 A. Laumonier, La ceramique hellenistique a reliefs. Ateliers "ioniens", in: EAD XXXI,
1, 1997, pp. 223 ff, pis. 50-51.
10 For ESA forms see: Hayes, EAA Atlante II, pp. 9-48, pis. I-XI.

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