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)
17081 (none) (none) (none) Vase. Baked clay. Decorated with a incised vagina and an incised band of circles. Type -I)LXIV- I)LXV =IL. 51b
17082 (none) (none) (none) Vase. Baked clay. Light drab. Neck decorated with six false spouts. Type I)LXVI = 1L.128
17083 (none) 1935,0113.396 (none) Vase baked clay. Greenish drab. Type 1)LXVII. =195P
17084 (none) 1931,1010.539 (none) Vase. Baked clay. With 4 hug handles and incised decoration. Type 1)LXVIII. =L.
17149 (none) 1930,1213.467 (none) Clay bowl. Large, with flat base and straight somewhat everted sides. Al 'Obaid ware with a band of decoration in black round the rim and just above the base broken and incomplete, but a considerable fragment. Type aU.51 [Al 'Obaid typology?] [drawing]
17185 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of zoomorphic vase. With the head of a ram in the round : the eyes and locks of the fleece are applique in clay dabs. [drawing]
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.
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]
17977 (none) (none) (none) Inscribed fragment of jar. White calcite. [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.
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.
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]
18524 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. Rather coarse grey limestone. The outside carved in relief with a row of 5 bulls in profile, advancing right, their heads turned outwards: each in attached from behind by a lion. [drawing]
18571 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. Grey transluscent calcite. Rim much chipped. [Type] 57. [drawing]

Related Terms

Bottles - Pots - Spouted