A new publication titled “Cypriot Fabrics? White Slip Pottery and Élite Linen Clothes of the Late Bronze Age” authored by A. Yasur-Landau and C. Spinazzi-Lucchesi was just published in the Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History.

This article points to the similarity between the decoration on Cypriot White Slip (WS) I and II pottery and contemporary 15th–14th-century BCE “Syrian” elite garments shown in 18th Dynasty Egyptian tombs. Depiction of men and women in the tombs of Rekhmire (TT100), Sobekhotep (TT63), Menkheperraseneb (TT86), and Anen (TT120) show white clothes decorated with both vertical and horizontal elements, with dotted and wavy additions. Such elements find direct parallels in the WS I decorative “vocabulary.” The paper examines the possibility that the Cypriot WS pottery imitates elite linen clothing produced during the international Late Bronze Age, some even on Cyprus, as indicated by the mention of “linen of Alashiya” (gad ^uru Alašiya) in Hittite inventory texts.

Read all about it here.