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)
18573 (none) 1933,1013.154 (none) Stone vase. Transluscent grey calcite. [drawing]
18605 (none) 1933,1013.246 (none) Clay vase, painted. Characteristic Jemdet Nast 3 color design. Type new JN.32.
18672 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. Transluscent white calcite. [Type] 59. [drawing]
18713 (none) (none) (none) Clay jar painted. Fragments of a large jar painted black design on greenish-drab: type al Obaid type.
18717 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. White marble. [Type] 50. [drawing]
18723 (none) (none) (none) Glazed pot. Blue glazed pottery, the color partly bleached, but on the whole well preserved. Type 758 =157P [drawing 2:5]
18757 (none) (none) (none) Pilgrim bottle of glazed earthenware; blue glaze mostly bleached white. [drawing] Type 762 = 221 P.
18804 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase fragment. Incised with figures of a bird, etc. Photo_. [drawing 1:1]
18912 (none) (none) (none) Copper vase. Part of rim and neck missing. Type _.
18956 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. White calcite. Type 80.
18957 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. White calcite. Type 80.
18959 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. White calcite. Most of rim missing. Type 78, a roughly made and rather angular variant.
18993 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. White calcite. Surface badly decayed and part of the rim missing. Type 5.
19009 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. White calcite. Type 92 v.
19010 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. White calcite. Situla type.
19049 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. White calcite. The lower part of the surface decayed. Type 61a.
19058 (none) 1997,0607.1 (none) Stone vase. White calcite. Type 92.
19059 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. White calcite. Type 4.
19062 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. White calcite. Type 60 B.
19063 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. White calcite. Type 60B.
19064 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. White calcite. Type 3.
19065 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. White calcite. Type 65 variant (rounded base, and proportions more slender).
19066 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. White calcite. Situla. Type _.
19067 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. White calcite. Type 1.
19069 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. White calcite. Probably cut down from a vase of Typw 86; the neck remade and 4 small holes pierced just below the new rim for affixing a lid.

Related Terms

Bottles - Pots - Spouted