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)
784 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Fine drab clay. Wheelmade. Bottom and part of rim broken. Type LXXXVI =P.167
794 (none) 1923,1110.74 (none) Clay pot of creamy white clay finely finished. Flat base. Same type as U.793. Type LXXXIII =P.135
795 (none) 1923,1110.88 (none) Glaze pot of drab clay covered with blue-green glaze partly flaked off and partly blanched. Type LXXXVIII =P.182a. [drawing]
829 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. of drab-clay, wheelmade. Type CI. Found with stone vases, etc. [drawing]
848 (none) (none) (none) Blue glaze bottle. Glaze partly faded. Two small loop handles. Type LXXXV = P.211
853 (none) (none) (none) Pot. Red clay, wheelmade. Type LXXVIII. =new P.165
855 (none) (none) (none) Glazed jar. Coarsely made of drab clay and covered with a glaze now yellow.
856 (none) (none) (none) Glazed jar. With 2 small loop handles of drab clay covered with a glaze once blue now yellowish white. Type LXVII, but the base is not so distinct. =217 [Probably, typology]
858 (none) 1923,1110.55 (none) Alabaster pot. Cylindrical, with out-turned flat rim a hole in one side, and most of rim missing. Restored from fragments. [drawing]
881 (none) 1923,1110.25 (none) Alabaster vase fragment of slightly carinated cylindrical jar in white-veined mackeral alabaster. Inscribed: portions of 2 lines. Probably a dedication to 'Nin'-(gal?) by... [king] 'of Ur' Type RC.5
882 (none) (none) (none) Alabaster vase fragment of, from rim of cylindrical jar with flat everted rim. Alabaster. First line only, "thing dedicated..." RC.9
883 (none) 1923,1110.56 (none) Alabaster vase fragment (about 1/3) of, giving complete section, of carinated cylindrical jar with plain everted rim in pink-veined mackeral alabaster.
886 (none) (none) (none) Alabaster Vase fragment, apparently of a lid, whereon in relief the hind-quarters of a bull lying down left. Coarse alabaster.
895 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Green clay, wheelmade, broken. Roughly wheelmarked over the top half of the pot. Type XLVIII but the rim is not flat but curves outwards. =P97 [drawing]
902 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Greenish, drab clay, wheelmade. Type XII =P205.
908 (none) 1923,1110.22 (none) Broken alabaster jar. 9 line inscription containing a [ins: 8ft of] [crossed out: dedication to or for (possibly) a] a king of the 3rd Dynasty of Ur by Utti... of Ninni his beloved son.
910 (none) 1923,1110.57 (none) Alabaster vase. Fragment.
913 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Drab clay, wheelmade. Type LXX =P.137.
954 (none) (none) (none) Clay Vase. Reddish clay with drab engobbage. Wheelmade. Broken. Type LXXXVII. Not yet used in Vol.'s II, IV, VII, or IX.
1036 (none) 1923,1110.80 (none) Clay Vase. Handmade. Reddish clay with white slip. [drawing]
1038 (none) (none) (none) Model Vase. in light drab clay. Miniature: straight sides, rim round base, everted rim.
1130 (none) (none) (none) Jar. Drab clay. Type XXXVII (but without lines on shoulder)
1138 (none) (none) (none) Vase. Drab clay: wheelmade. Type LVII. Not P
1139 (none) (none) (none) Vase. Drab clay: wheelmade. Neck broken off. Band of 4 incised lines spirally round body, below neck. Type LVII.
1140 (none) (none) (none) Jar. Yellow clay. Type 665 =P.130 [drawing 1:5]

Related Terms

Bottles - Pots - Spouted