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This pottery bowl, or kylix, is decorated in the White Slip II ware style. It dates from the Late Cypriote IIA-IIB period which is 1475 BC to 1200 BC. A kylix is a vessel primarily used for drinking wine.
The kylix 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 kylix has a hemispherical bowl with a large wishbone handle below an asymmetrical rim. It is decorated with a cream slip and dark brown paint. Around the rim are numerous short vertical strokes. The upper body has a frieze of hooked chains between two bands, composed of two horizontal lines filled with a lattice-pattern. The lower band and hooked chain are broken at the handle and opposite side. Perpendicular from the frieze, on each side, are three vertical bands, each composed of two vertical lines filled with a lattice-pattern, alternating with three vertical ladder motifs. At the break in the frieze at the handle are ladder motifs crossed by a horizontal line halfway down the body. At a break on the opposite side the ladder motifs are set between two vertical rows of dots and crossed by a horizontal line. The sides and base of handle are painted with vertical lines and a dot on top of handle.
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