| Brief Description |
This pottery bowl is decorated in the White-painted I ware style dating from the Cypro-Geometric I period, 1050 BC to 950 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. It has a ring base and a shallow, conical body curving inwards at top. There are two rounded, horizontal strap handles at the rim. It is decorated with a matt reddish buff slip and dark brown matt paint. Inside the ring of the base is one thick concentric circle enclosing four concentric circles and a ring of triangles. The ring of the base is picked out by hatching. Around the lower body are four thin bands enclosed by two broad bands, the lowest covering side of the base-ring. The top, sides, and bases of the handles are painted. There are thick strokes from base of handles extending to the lower body. The rim is painted. Inside, at mid body, is one thick band and at centre are three thin concentric circles enclosed by two thick concentric circles.
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