| Brief Description |
This pottery bowl, decorated in the Red Polished II ware style, dates from the Early Cypriote II period, 2075 BC to 2000 BC.
The bowl 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.
The bowl has been restored from fragments and has a chipped rim. It has a round base and hemispherical bowl. There is a knob-lug at rim. It is decorated with a lustrous red slip and has a lustrous black slip around the outside of rim and interior of the bowl. White-filled incisions decorate the outer bowl. Two bands of multiple lines, one around the base and one around upper body, enclose a design composed of intersecting groups of four parallel oblique lines forming irregular triangular and quadrangular panels. The groups of parallel lines alternatively take the form of three bands filled with a chequerboard design, or two hatched bands enclosing an empty band. The panels are filled with ladder motifs, small chains of lozenges and concentric circle groups, each made up of three to four circles. A triple zig-zag runs around the black part of the rim.
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