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)
14972 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. roughly made of whitish drab clay. Type CCCXXXII. not in catalog vol.IV
14991 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Drab clay, plain. Type CCCXXXVIII.
14997A (none) (none) (none) Clay pots. Small "cornets" A. Drab Clay [Drawing] B. red clay, no rim, base broken ? recalling the stone 'cornets' of Susa Not in cat. vol IV
15367 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Painted TO ware. Much broken but complete (papered & pasted) Type CCCLX. =aU.32.
15524 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Plain light drab ware with creamy slip. Type [CCCLXXII crossed out] 52.
15525 (none) 1930,1213.192 (none) Clay pot. TO painted ware. Black on green. Miniature: roughly made by hand and carelessly painted. Type CCCLXXIII. 30. [drawing 2:5]
15530 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Plain red clay. Handmade. The body finished off with vertical scraping. Type CCCLXXV.
15544 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Small rough handmade of red clay. Round the neck a collar of dark brown paint. Type CCCLXXII. 31. [drawing]
15555 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. TO painted ware. Black on drab. Type CCCLXXIX. 33. [drawing]
15562 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. TO painted ware. Red clay with black or chocolate brown design. Type CCCLXXX. 34. [drawing]
15596 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Miniature. TO painted ware (but too encrusted for any design to be seen). Type CCCLXXII. 30.
15613 (none) (none) (none) Fragments. A large TO painted pot. Broken into small pieces and probably far from complete: painted black on light whitish drab. Shape unknown.
15618 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. TO painted ware. Plain black rim. Type CCCXCV. 55.
15620 (none) (none) (none) Fragments. All belonging to a large pot ( incomplete and shape unknown) of TO painted ware; creamy drab body decorated with black spirals.
15627 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Plain red ware. Handmade. Type CCCXCIV? Variant.
15628 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Plain red clay. handmade. Type CCCXCIV, rather smaller variant.
15630 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Fragments. Plain, creamy drab slip over red body clay: apparently made on the slow wheel. Type CCCXXXVIII.
15685 (none) (none) (none) Pot. Fragment. Stamped with brick inscription (SAK 1966) of Bur-Sin.
16207 (none) (none) (none) Glazed pot. Persian period. Type 258. =188P. TA. [drawing]
16275 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Drab clay, the rim painted black. Rim partly missing. Type CCCCCLIV. L.77 new.
17793 (none) (none) (none) Pot. Copper. [drawing]
17976 (none) (none) (none) Pot. Glazed. [drawing 1:1]
17993 (none) (none) (none) Glazed pot. Persian. [drawing 1:2]
18130 (none) (none) (none) Glazed pot. Pottery with surface glaze. Neck blue, body now all bleached, originally white with yellow bands. Type CCCLXXXVI =171b P.
18277 (none) (none) (none) Glazed pot. Clay body covered with smooth dark-horn glaze. [drawing 1:1]

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Bottles - Jars - Spouted