A Jar is a type of vessel that has an approximately cylindrical body and is used for cooking or storage purposes.  By using Anna Shepard's criteria, a jar is a closed form where the height is greater than the diameter.  The angle of the sides from the base are between 45 and 90 degrees and it has an apparent neck.  A Jar may or may not have handles.  If It has a spout, it is listed under Spouted Jar.  

This category matches Woolley's published ceramic typology Nos. 43-48; 54-176; 186-203; 217-222; 250-253.  It matches the metal vessel typology Nos. 52-79 and Stone vessel typology Nos. 60-92.  

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Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
12311 (none) 1935,0113.384 (none) Stone Vase. Bottle type. Calcite. Badly broken & in poor condition.
12313 30-12-86 (none) (none) Stone Vase. Calcite. Type. See field notes.
12314 (none) (none) (none) Stone Vase. Calcite. Type. See field notes. Missing.
12485G 30-12-432B (none) (none) Copper tray etc. [A] [Tray] [Tray type] XXV (new 31) Attached by corrosion to the inside of this are [drawing] [B] 1 copper vessel [Type] XXXVI (new 81), with long trough spout [drawing] [C-E] 3 copper hemispherical bowls, [F-I] Copper vases [Type] LXI, four more or less alike and [J] one [Type] XLV. All corroded together. [drawing] [additional notes on back: 4 bowls BM 121663 1 broken (illegible) from 1927-8 unclear if this is related to the 3 bowls listed in entry]
12485H 30-12-432C (none) (none) Copper tray etc. [A] [Tray] [Tray type] XXV (new 31) Attached by corrosion to the inside of this are [drawing] [B] 1 copper vessel [Type] XXXVI (new 81), with long trough spout [drawing] [C-E] 3 copper hemispherical bowls, [F-I] Copper vases [Type] LXI, four more or less alike and [J] one [Type] XLV. All corroded together. [drawing] [additional notes on back: 4 bowls BM 121663 1 broken (illegible) from 1927-8 unclear if this is related to the 3 bowls listed in entry]
12485I (none) (none) (none) Copper tray etc. [A] [Tray] [Tray type] XXV (new 31) Attached by corrosion to the inside of this are [drawing] [B] 1 copper vessel [Type] XXXVI (new 81), with long trough spout [drawing] [C-E] 3 copper hemispherical bowls, [F-I] Copper vases [Type] LXI, four more or less alike and [J] one [Type] XLV. All corroded together. [drawing] [additional notes on back: 4 bowls BM 121663 1 broken (illegible) from 1927-8 unclear if this is related to the 3 bowls listed in entry]
12485J (none) (none) (none) Copper tray etc. [A] [Tray] [Tray type] XXV (new 31) Attached by corrosion to the inside of this are [drawing] [B] 1 copper vessel [Type] XXXVI (new 81), with long trough spout [drawing] [C-E] 3 copper hemispherical bowls, [F-I] Copper vases [Type] LXI, four more or less alike and [J] one [Type] XLV. All corroded together. [drawing] [additional notes on back: 4 bowls BM 121663 1 broken (illegible) from 1927-8 unclear if this is related to the 3 bowls listed in entry]
12601 30-12-74 (none) (none) Stone vase. Spill type. Calcite. Type II.
12607 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Baked. Light drab. Type 757 (not P) [drawing 2:5]
12649 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. Calcite spill type. Rim broken. Type XLVII [drawing 1:5]
12655 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Baked. Incised before firing. [drawing]
12656 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Baked. Incised before firing thus [reference to drawing] on shoulders. Type TO LX. [drawing]
12696D (none) 1928,1017.685 (none) Group: [A] (1) Copper pin with curled head [Type] VII. [drawing] [B] (2) Silver wire earrings 2 1/2 coils. [C] (3) Silver and lapis lentoid beads strung in alternate pairs [D] (4) Alabaster miniature spill vase [Type] CII [D]. [drawing]
12697B 30-12-85 (none) (none) Group: [A] 1) Copper mirror (?). Broad leaf shaped blade. [B] Stone vase. White calcite. Misshapen. For type see field note. [Type] CXXXVIII.
12701K (none) (none) (none) Group: [A] 1) Copper pin. L. 250mm with lapis ball head and gold caps. Type V B. [B] 2) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. L. 20mm, D. 11mm. Two heroes (one wearing feathered headdress) and rampant animals. [C] 3) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli L. 30mm, D. 7mm. Two registers. Above and below: rampant animals. [D] 4) Beads forming a necklace of 3 strings: gold, lapis and carnelian barrels. [E] 5) Beads. Long lentoids of gold and lapis and in center a small gold frog amulet L. 10mm, W. 10mm. [F-G] 6) Gold earrings. A pair. Small 1 1/2 coils. Lunate. [H-I] 7) Two bracelets. [H] One plain silver, the [I] other plain copper. [J] 8) Stone bowl. Calcite. Greyish. Nearly hemispherical. [Type] IX. [K] 9) Stone vase. White calcite [Type] LVI. [L] 10) Silver finger (?) ring. Very small. 1 1/2 coils.
12703E (none) (none) (none) Group: [A] (1) Silver earring, 2 1/2 spiral wire coils. [B] (2) Copper pin Type V B. Lapis ball head. [C] (3) Lapis and silver double conoids and diamonds, lapis and carnelian bugles and carnelian barrels. [D] (4) Silver finger ring. [E] (5) Stone vase white calcite variant, Type I.
12704A (none) (none) (none) Group: [A] (1) Stone vase. White calcite. Type same as U.12277 [Type] LII. [B] (2) Stone vase. White calcite. Spill type. [drawing 1:5] [C] (3) Stone bowl grey steatite. Broken but complete [Type] LXXXVI. [D] (4) Stone bowl. White calcite. [Type] LIII. [drawing 2:5] [E] (5) Three silver finger rings: corroded together - only one intact - consisting of 3 1/2 coils of fine wire. [F] (6) Remains of copper pin with fluted lapis ball head. Type V B. [G] (7) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. 2 registers. Above: spread eagles and rampant gazelles (?). Below: Gazelles. [H] (8) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Rampant lions crossed and gazelles. [I] (9) Beads. Lapis bugles and double conoids. Carnelian bugles and rings and some silver wire pendants much decayed. See field note. The silver spiral pendants had 4 circles of spiral coils made out of a single strip of wire thus [reference to drawing]. [drawing] [J] Also in the necklace a minute lapis lazuli frog amulet. [K] Round forehead thin gold ribbon. [drawing] [L] Large double conoid carnelian beads and a few bugles and one calcite bead shaped thus [reference to drawing], diamond shaped in section.
12704B (none) (none) (none) Group: [A] (1) Stone vase. White calcite. Type same as U.12277 [Type] LII. [B] (2) Stone vase. White calcite. Spill type. [drawing 1:5] [C] (3) Stone bowl grey steatite. Broken but complete [Type] LXXXVI. [D] (4) Stone bowl. White calcite. [Type] LIII. [drawing 2:5] [E] (5) Three silver finger rings: corroded together - only one intact - consisting of 3 1/2 coils of fine wire. [F] (6) Remains of copper pin with fluted lapis ball head. Type V B. [G] (7) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. 2 registers. Above: spread eagles and rampant gazelles (?). Below: Gazelles. [H] (8) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Rampant lions crossed and gazelles. [I] (9) Beads. Lapis bugles and double conoids. Carnelian bugles and rings and some silver wire pendants much decayed. See field note. The silver spiral pendants had 4 circles of spiral coils made out of a single strip of wire thus [reference to drawing]. [drawing] [J] Also in the necklace a minute lapis lazuli frog amulet. [K] Round forehead thin gold ribbon. [drawing] [L] Large double conoid carnelian beads and a few bugles and one calcite bead shaped thus [reference to drawing], diamond shaped in section.
12707A (none) (none) (none) Group: [A] (1) Stone vase, white calcite. For type see field ntoes. [Type] LXXVI. [B] (2) Stone bowl, white calcite. Broken badly. Type XIX. [C] (3) Copper lamp normal type cut as a shell. L. 140mm. L. of spout 100mm with ring at end for suspension. [D] (4) Beads. Carnelian rings probably a bracelet with thin silver wire bracelets elliptical, broken and decayed. [E] (5) Silver wire finger ring. [F] (6) Frontlet of beads. 1 lapis bugle and 2 carnelian bugles [G] (7) Cylinder seal. Shell. Much decayed. [H] (8) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli originally suspended on a silver wire. Subject. [I] (9) Copper strainer. Corroded with it. Normal type. [J] (10) A copper tumbler. Straight sided [Type] LVII. [K] (11) Copper axe type XXI. [L] (12) Copper holdfasts. Croquet hook type. [M] (13) Copper pin. Type V B. Lapis ball head corroded with: [N] 14) Copper dagger type II B.
12711E (none) (none) (none) Group: [A] (1) Copper dagger. Type II E. [B] (2) Copper reticule. [C] (3) Stone bowl. Calcite. Type LI. [drawing 2:5] [D] (4) Carnelian bugle beads - three probably worn round forehead. [E] (5) Stone vase. White calcite. Type LXXXIV. [drawing 3:5] [F] (6) Silver earring. 1 1/2 spiral coils lunate ended. [G] (7) Copper vase. Cylindrical. Type LVII. [drawing 2:5] [H] (8)Copper pin. Type V B with lapis ball head. [I] (9) Copper axe. Type XX. [J] (10) Bowl greyish stone. Broken and rivetted in antiquity. Type XVIII. [K] (11) Beads small lapis and silver double conoids. Carnelian lentoids. [drawing 1:5] [L] (12) Cylinder seal. Lentoid shaped. 2 registers. Gazelles (?). Lapis lazuli.
12711G (none) (none) (none) Group: [A] (1) Copper dagger. Type II E. [B] (2) Copper reticule. [C] (3) Stone bowl. Calcite. Type LI. [drawing 2:5] [D] (4) Carnelian bugle beads - three probably worn round forehead. [E] (5) Stone vase. White calcite. Type LXXXIV. [drawing 3:5] [F] (6) Silver earring. 1 1/2 spiral coils lunate ended. [G] (7) Copper vase. Cylindrical. Type LVII. [drawing 2:5] [H] (8)Copper pin. Type V B with lapis ball head. [I] (9) Copper axe. Type XX. [J] (10) Bowl greyish stone. Broken and rivetted in antiquity. Type XVIII. [K] (11) Beads small lapis and silver double conoids. Carnelian lentoids. [drawing 1:5] [L] (12) Cylinder seal. Lentoid shaped. 2 registers. Gazelles (?). Lapis lazuli.
12723D (none) (none) (none) Group of copper vessels and a copper pin. Found corroded together. [A] (1) Copper strainer [Type] (new 96). [B] (2) Oval bowl. Distorted [Type] LXIII (new 7). [C] (3) Hemispherical bowl [Type] III (new 4). [D] (4) Cylindrical vase: same as U.12711. Type XV (?LVII new 44). [E] Copper pin with carnelian double conoid head. Tip missing, straight type [Type] IV (New 3).
12724 (none) 1929,1017.669 (none) Stone vase. White calcite. Tall spill vase type. Type XLVII.
12726 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. Calcite. White. Type LXXVIII. [drawing 2:5]
12727 30-12-88 (none) (none) Stone vase. Calcite. White. Type I. [drawing 2:5]

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Bottles - Pots - Spouted