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)
17301 (none) (none) (none) Vase. Baked clay. Light drab. With incised decoration of a tree one side and vagina on the other: above, hands of a combed and hatched ornament. Type: 1DLXIX =L.54a.
17302 (none) 1935,0113.394 (none) Vase. Baked clay. Greenish grey. Incised decoration with white paste filling in the incisions. Part missing [drawing 4:5]
17303 (none) 1935,0113.395 (none) Vase. Baked clay. Glazed. Two handles. Originally green. Type 1D LXXI. =225P.
17304 (none) (none) (none) Vase. Baked clay. Glazed. Bleached white. Two handles. Type 1D LXXII. =226P.
17390 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. Calcite. White. Part missing. [drawing 2:5]
17403 (none) (none) (none) Vase. Baked clay. Glazed. Blue bleached white. Type 1DLXXI. Persian. =225P.
1749 (none) 1924,0920.138 (none) Miniature vase. Handmade. Light reddish clay. Cf. RC.188 and 231
1751 (none) (none) B15767 Vase. Light red clay, creamy engobbage. Handmade. Ornament incised before baking, design of 5 geese in a row and a palm tree. P.
17637 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. Fragment of basic diorite. [drawing 1:1]
17766 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of obsidian vase. [drawing 1:1]
17837 (none) (none) (none) Toilet vase. White calcite. Two small jars joined together each contains yellow pigment. [drawing]
17838 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. White calcite. Miniature. Type RC 113 new. [RC.67 variant crossed out] [drawing 1:1]
17843 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. Fragment only with part of inscription thus [reference to drawing] [drawing]
17890 32-40-455 (none) (none) Fragment of a stone vase. Grey steatite. Carved in relief with a figure of a gazelle and other objects, one apparently the head of a man. Rough poor work. [drawing 1:1]
17912H (none) (none) (none) Group from one burial. (A) [A and J] 2 Gold frontlets. (B) [B and K]2 tubular gold bracelets (C) Gold earring, spirally coiled with lunate ends (D) [D and L] 2 silver bracelets, single wire (E) Cylinder seal, lapis lazuli, introductory scene, 2 standing figures and seated deity; crescent above god; (F) Necklace of gold balls between carnelian bugles, flat lentoid chalcedones, carnelian barrels, carnelian ball, agate lentoid, green chalcedone bugles. (G) Axe, type XVIII, [H-I] Copper objects [These are drawn on the field catalog card, but not assigned subdivisions by Woolley][drawing]
17977 (none) (none) (none) Inscribed fragment of jar. White calcite. [drawing 1:1]
18104 32-40-2 (none) (none) Vase of light drab clay in the form of a woman carrying a jar. (the arms broken). [drawing 1:1]
18125 (none) (none) B18485 Vase of glass paste. Greenish grey surface (black in section) with combed design roughly applied in opaque white glass; this is merely squeezed to the surface (by the cake-icing technique) and not incorporated in the body of the vase: it is the last degeneration of the real Phoenician glass but may be itself Phoenician. Part of rim missing.
18128 32-40-3 (none) (none) Green glazed jug. (Good condition and color). Type DCXLVIII = (If this is 648 it =RC.36). But this is not a jug. Remove from catalog.
18158 (none) (none) (none) Rhodian jar of drab clay with stamp on side. The jar was used as a frain-pip and the bottom has been broken away. [drawing]
18224 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase fragment. Black and white marble with fragment of inscription. Probably belongs to U.1455. H.C.
18232 (none) 1933,1013.1 (none) Stone vase. Fragments of stalagmitic calcite with deeply colored veining. Type. On it, part of an inscription.
183 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase (broken). Greenish ware. Type XXIX. cf. RC.74 [drawing 1:2]
18312 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of stone vase. Bowl: dark steatite. Plain band at rim = the rest of the outside carved with scale pattern thus[reference to drawing], the scales originally filled in. With scales of white shell of which the centers were of another material.
18481 (none) (none) (none) Vase, stone. Greenish steatite. [Type] 61. [drawing]

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