Jars

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)
	10824I	87-28-22	(none)	(none)	Tomb Group A. A large number of gold and lapis double conoids; order not ascertained owing to extreme confusion in soil. B. Silver pin with lapis ball head. Type V. C. [C and G] Two copper pins with lapis ball heads. Second broken and decayed. Type V. D. Gold finger ring, plain gold wire on top and bottom, seven spiral gold wires between. E. [E and H] Two silver earrings; 2 1/2 coils each. F. Cockle shells containing brown, blue, and green paint. [I-K Ceramic Vessels not recorded on card, but recorded in UE II L Silver Armlet not recorded on card or in volume, but BM has recorded this object as belonging to this group.]
	8733	87-28-14	(none)	(none)	Vase. Limestone. White. Broken in 7 pieces. Part of rim missing. Broken and rivetted in antiquity and stuck together with bitumen. Rivet holes filled up with a white paste that may be burnt gypsum now called plaster of Paris. Portions of copper rivets still intact in rivet holes. Stone type XLV.
	7940	87-28-13	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. Calcite. White. Part of rim broken (and mended) and part missing. Stone type LVI.
	6217	87-28-12	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. Light drab. Type [CLXXII crossed off] 656. =L.
	3210	87-28-11	(none)	(none)	Pottery vase. Buffware, with rounded base, slighlty downturned lip and rim on neck: specimen well made. Type CXCVII, =RC.44 [possibly reads =RC.214, unclear] (not p)
	7085	47-29-419	(none)	B16587	Clay vase. Light drab. Type RC.26. =L.
	19979	35-1-663	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. Painted red all over, but with paint mostly gone. JN
	3228A	35-1-652	(none)	(none)	Pottery vases. Buffware, with broad cheeks and rounded base. Type CLXXXV, =RC.83, (not p).
	19727	35-1-651	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. 'alabaster'. JN 26.
	20075	35-1-608	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. Grey ware (smothered). Imitation of stone form. JN 28 (59) In fragments = JN 35 (clay) new
	19702	35-1-607	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. Diorite. In fragments
	19222	35-1-596	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. White calcite. Type 64. (in fragments).
	19587	35-1-566	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. Basic diorite. Type JN 11
	19524	35-1-557	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. 'alabaster'. Type 26
	19050	35-1-524	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. White limestone. Poor condition. Type 80.
	19671	35-1-522	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. White calcite. Type JN
	19409	35-1-521	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. 'alabaster' Type 27
	19980	35-1-512	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. Painted red all over and burnished. In fragments. Type 48 [annotated]. JN
	(none)	35-1-256	(none)	(none)	(none)
	19413	35-1-200	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. Diorite. Type JN 27
	19015	35-1-199	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. White calcite. In poor condition. Type 5.
	19060	35-1-198	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. White calcite. Type 62.
	19538	35-1-196	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. White calcite. Type 60b
	19171	35-1-195	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. White calcite. Type 60b.
	19135	35-1-194	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. White calcite. Type 106.

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