A Pot is a vessel that is like a jar but has a more open aperture.  It is usually used for cooking and may also be categorized as an open form.  By using Anna Shepard's criteria, a pot is a closed form where the height approximately equals the diameter.  The angle of the sides from the base are between 60 and 90 degrees and it has little to no neck.  Pots may or may not have handles.  

This category matches Woolley's published ceramic vessel typology Nos. 1-2; 28; 31-42; 177-179; 182-185; 223-239.  It matches the metal vessel typology Nos. 12-14; 18-26; 45-51; 106-107.  It matches the stone vessel typology Nos. 1-12; 100.

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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)
1514 (none) 1924,0920.137 (none) Jar-stopper(?) red drab clay; egg-cup shape, unsymmetrical. [drawing 1:1]
1542 (none) 1924,0920.131 (none) Pot. Red drab clay; handmade. With double neck, and suspension hole, between the 2 openings. [drawing 2:5]
1670 (none) (none) (none) Pot. Red clay: wheelmade, small. B. Type CXI. =RC.11 (not p)
1679 (none) (none) (none) Pot. Reddish clay, drab surface; wheelmade. Like U.1144. B. Type III (but more globular?) (not p)
1680 (none) (none) (none) Pot. Buff clay; wheelmade. B. Type III. =RC.11 (not p)
2540 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Greenish drab ware. Type CXXII =RC.83 (not p)
2541 29-174-10 (none) (none) Clay pot. Pinkish drab clay, with broken mouth. Type CXXIII.
2555 (none) (none) (none) Pot. Fragment. Blackish stone with series of incised rings. Type XLI =RC.30b
2633 (none) 1927,1003.137 (none) Clay pot. Pinkish drab ware. Handmade. Type CXXVM. (not p)
2638 (none) (none) (none) Pot fragment. Marble, with him in low relief, standing on brick pavement. [drawing 1:2]
2780B (none) (none) (none) Pottery vases. Buff ware: widely splayed lip and pointed below baseline. A. is reconstructed, B. fragmentary. Type CXLIII = L.107. Larsa period. Found associates with U.2781 and U.2782. ? No (10) etc. L.5. (6)
2784 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Buff ware with round base and pronounced shoulders. Type CXLVII =RC.41 (not p)
2786 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Reddish ware with wide mouth and rounded base. Type CXI =RC.11 (not p)
2787 (none) (none) (none) Small clay pot. Hand made of buff clay and very rough. Sketch pattern, giving height and diameters to scale 1:1 [drawing 1:1]
2821 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Handmade, miniature of brownish ware. Sketch pattern to seals [last word unclear] cf. type CXXVIII [drawing 1:1]
2848 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Handmade miniature of reddish drab ware. Sketch pattern 1:1 [drawing 1:1]
2985 29-174-19 (none) (none) Water pot. Drab ware with rounded base and sieve top. Type CLXXXVIII (not p)
3074 29-174-14 (none) (none) Clay pot. Of drab ware with slightly curved sides. Poor quality roughly made. Type CXC (not p).
3110 (none) (none) (none) Miniature pot. Of red ware, roughly hand-made with round base. Sketch pattern 1:1 Type as U.1484[drawing 1:1]
3120 (none) (none) (none) Small pot of bitumen. Sketch pattern 1:1. [drawing 1:1]
3128 (none) 1927,1003.138 (none) Clay pot. Head made of drab ware with scalloped shoulders. Sketch pattern 1:2. Type as U.1036. [drawing 1:2]
3332 (none) (none) (none) Large glazed pot. Design in green.
3336 (none) (none) (none) Large pot. Pierced allover: of reddish unglazed ware.
3370 (none) (none) (none) Large water-pot. Round-bellied, painted black at top and bottom with small excrescences on shoulder, variagated band round belly and diamond pattern in black, between top and bottom: fragmentary. Type.
6042 (none) (none) (none) Earthenware pot. Type CVI [CXXVI crossed out]

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Bottles - Jars - Spouted