Early Phoenician Red Slip Ware at Motya: from Levantine prototypes to Western styles

Abstract

Red Slip (RSW) is a specialized ware exported by Phoenician seafarers from the Levant throughout the Mediterranean during the first half of the 1st millennium BC. RSW characterizes the ceramic repertoire of the earliest phases of the Phoenician settlements of Central and Western Mediterranean during the late 9th-6th centuries BC. During this time span, the RSW repertoire underwent some important transformations that we can consider to be the outcome of the new Western Phoenician culture