Pots
This category includes vessels that have shoulders larger than their bases, and a rim that is smaller than the base.
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) |
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![]() | 12317B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A] Copper Patten & [B] Ewer, & [C-D] 2 copper beakers. Making a set. All in very poor condition and broken. [Types listed, not correlated to objects, but are presumably in order indicated] [A]XXVIII, [B]XXIX, [C-D]XXIX. |
12664B | (none) | 1929,1017.717 | (none) | Group: [A] (1) Wooden comb completely broken. [B] (2) Clay bottle, smoked grey ware. [C] (3) Earring - silver and copper intertwined lunate ends. 1 1/2 spiral coils. [D] 1 silver finger ring plain and [E] 1 copper [finger ring]. [F] Lapis cylinder seal. Two enthroned bird men sucking straws from a champagne vase . [G] Small beads. Lapis and silver rings and one large flat square lapis. | |
![]() | 12774O.2 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Objects. (A) Bead, long, clay imitation of bead cut from shell core. (B) Clay bugle bead. (C) Shell bugle bead. (D) Clay spindle whorl. (E) Copper needle (broken). (F) Clay nail. (G) Fragment of clay sickle. (H) Penannular ring of shell. [I not assigned in group] (J) [J.1-.11] Chips, flint and obsidian, including one flint piercer. (K) [K.1-.2] Fragments of clay animal figurines. (L) Animal tooth. (M) Miniature pot of reddish clay, broken. (N) Pottery fragments. [N.1-.4] 4 small bits black design on white, characteristic TO [Tel Obaid]; [N.5-.6] 2 pieces, black band on drab, coarse ware; [N.7-.10] 4 pieces red bands on drab [N.11] 1 piece plain red wash(?); [N.12-.13] 2 pieces, design in red on light ground; [N.14-.15] 2 pieces, design in red and black on light ground : rows of triangles and bands; [N.16-.18] 3 pieces with transverse bands of erased slip decoration, light red on deeper red body. (O) [O.1] Cylindrical vase of light drab clay and [O.2] fragment of a second similar. (P) Clay jar sealing (?) with scratched design. (Q) Clay jar sealing with impression of seal cylinder : subject, bulls and square shrines. (R) Clay cup, reddish ware, wheelmade, normal type, broken and mended. (S) Clay jar sealing, fragment, with design of rows of animals. |
![]() | 12777 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Paint. Clay pot-base containing some of the plum-colored red paint used for painting pottery. |
![]() | 13033A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 painted pots. Baked clay. Badly broken. 1 certainly complete the other probably complete. |
13033B | 31-17-328 | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 painted pots. Baked clay. Badly broken. 1 certainly complete the other probably complete. | |
14410 | (none) | 1935,0113.391 | (none) | Clay pot. Light red clay. Rather rough. Type CCCX. | |
14418 | 31-17-299 | (none) | (none) | Clay pot. Pink clay with greenish drab surface. Between shoulder & neck a horizontal band of red paint from which hang streamers - vertical red strokes in sets of three. Most of the rim missing & a large hole in one side. Type? Cf. Type CLXI. [drawing] | |
![]() | 14422 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Fragments from a small pot of white frit originally covered with blue glaze. The shoulder decorated with impressed chevron. (restoration) It appears, so far as the decay of the frit allows of judgement, to have been moulded over a core which was afterward removed. [drawing 1:1] |
14426 | 31-16-222 | (none) | (none) | Clay pot. Type [CCCXIV crossed out] RC.67. Not in cat. vol. IV | |
![]() | 14428 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay pot. Drab clay, pinkish. Good fine clay well potted & smoothed. On the shoulders 4 small lugs pierced horizontally. Type CCCXV. Not in catalog. |
14429 | 31-17-368 | (none) | (none) | Clay pot. Reddish drab clay. On the shoulders 3 small lugs pierced horizontally (2broken). Type CCCXV. | |
14432 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay pot. Fragmentary, and parts missing of very light-colored drab clay. Type CCCXVI. =JN132 new. Not in catalog. | |
14441 | 31-16-141 | (none) | (none) | Clay pot. Red clay. Type ? RC50.A. Not in Catalog. Vol. IV. [drawing] | |
14445 | (none) | 1935,0113.392 | (none) | Clay pot. Miniature. Red clay. Roughly made. JN91. Not in catalog. [drawing] | |
![]() | 14450 | 31-16-450 | (none) | (none) | Clay pot. Drab clay flared on 1 side to red. Type TO LXXX. Not in catalog. |
![]() | 14467 | (none) | 1930,1213.245 | (none) | Clay pot. Reddish drab clay. Miniature. Cut in text. Not a type. Not in catalog. [drawing 1:1] |
14475 | (none) | 1930,1213.314 | (none) | Clay pot. Drab clay. Type CCCXIX. Not in catalog. | |
14493 | 31-17-359 | (none) | (none) | Clay pot. Greenish clay. With round handles. Type CCCXX. Not in catalog. | |
![]() | 14901 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Fragments. From a clay pot. Chocolate paint on a light buff ground: only a very small proportion of the pot is perserved. Not in catalog. |
![]() | 14902 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Fragments. From the shoulder of a large pot painted with design in 3 colors Jemdt Nasr type. (only a part of the shoulder preserved, rim and lower half of body missing.) |
14935 | 31-16-252 | (none) | (none) | Clay pot. Cut down from a tall cylindrical vessel of light and coarse ware: the pot was sawn into at various points of the circumference, cut nearly through and then snapped off: the saw marks are quite distinct. Not in catalog. [drawing] | |
![]() | 14956 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay pot. Situla shape. Light red clay. Rough. Type CCCXXIII. =JN69. Not in catalog. |
![]() | 14957 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay pot. Clay light red to drab. Type CCCXXIV = JN.29 new. |
![]() | 14963 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay pot. Drab clay. Type CCCXXX. Not in catalog. JN131 new. |
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