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)
15661 (none) 1930,1213.171 (none) Vase. Fragment. Alabaster. Part of 2 lines of dedication to a god NE...(possibley Ne-Dar??) writing irregular and probably very archaic. HC.21
8980 (none) (none) (none) Vase. White calcite. Type LXXXV.
8978 (none) (none) (none) Vase. White calcite. Spill Vase. Type LXXXVI.
8104 (none) 1928,1009.430 (none) Vase. Steatite. Green. Cut down from a tall vase and made into a bowl with low sides. Part of rim missing. [drawing 2:5] CIII
8300 (none) (none) B17121 Vase. Calcite. White. Veined. Stone type LXXVIII.
8102 (none) (none) (none) Vase. Calcite. White. Part of rim missing. Stone type _.
18481 (none) (none) (none) Vase, stone. Greenish steatite. [Type] 61. [drawing]
16225 31-43-172 (none) (none) Vase, fragment. Clay, unusual type. The clay is blackish grey (smother-kiln fired) & flakey, resembling rare specimens found e.g. in a late grave against the NW sie of the Temenos-wall. On the broad vertical rim are panels outlined with incised lines and the border filled in with red paint: bands of dotted hatching have the dots filled in with white and the incised lines are similarly filled: in one panel is an incised drawing of a duck. [drawing 1:1]
2967 (none) 1927,1003.141 (none) Vase on stand. Drab ware, roughly handmade. Base ornamented with affixed clay discs. Sketch pattern 1:1. [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.
2715A (none) (none) (none) Vase fragments. Drab ware with snakes in relief: both have incised diamond pattern. Sketches. [drawing]
2715B (none) (none) (none) Vase fragments. Drab ware with snakes in relief: both have incised diamond pattern. Sketches. [drawing]
15040 (none) (none) (none) Vase fragment. Steatite? inscribed Ibur. HC.150.
17083 (none) 1935,0113.396 (none) Vase baked clay. Greenish drab. Type 1)LXVII. =195P
8770 (none) (none) (none) Vase Calcite Yellowish Stone type LXXVIII
10919 (none) 1928,1010.456 (none) Vase White translucent calcite [drawing] Type 57
10854 (none) (none) B17104 Vase White calcite [drawing] Type I Much of the rim missing
9790 (none) 1928,1010.464 (none) Vase White calcite Type [struck out: LVIVI] LXXIX =64 near
10783 (none) (none) (none) Vase White calcite Type LXXVIII
9113 (none) (none) (none) Vase White calcite Type LXXVI (New 86)
9677 (none) (none) B17113 Vase White calcite Type LXIII
10784 (none) (none) (none) Vase White calcite Type LXIII
9311 (none) (none) B17181 Vase White Calcite Type III
9148 (none) 1928,1009.509 (none) Vase White calcite Spill vase. Type LXXXVI.

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Bottles - Pots - Spouted