| Brief Description |
This pottery juglet, decorated in the style of Red Polished II or III ware, dates from the Early Cypriote III to Middle Cypriot I periods, 2000 BC - 1800 BC.
The juglet is one of a large collection of ceramics from Cyprus, donated to the Museum by Dr George Sleight, who lived in Cyprus and worked as Principal of the Morphou Teachers College. Later he became first Assistant Director and then Director of Education in Cyprus. After his retirement in 1956 Dr Sleight became Education Minister for Sierra Leone where he remained until at least 1961.
It has a chipped rim and a firing-related eruption on its upper body. The juglet is gourd-shaped with a round base and a squat, globular body. There is a nubbin on the front shoulder. It has a thick, slightly tapering neck which leads to a wide flaring rim and flat round mouth. The vertical handle is of circular cross-section and runs from the shoulder to rim.
The juglet is decorated with lustrous red slip and white-filled incisions. The white incisions include two bands of multiple lines, one around the lower and one around the upper body; these enclose a double zig-zag filled with hatching dividing the body into alternating triangular panels, each filled with two concentric circles and a line of hatching. A further two bands of multiple lines, one around the lower and one around the upper neck, enclose a single zig-zag line. Hatching alternates with vertical zig-zag lines along the top of the handle. Sets of parallel lines divide the top of the rim into four quadrants.
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