Bowls
This category includes vessels where the height is less than the diameter, and the rim is greater than the base.
A bowl is a vessel that is a round container used to serve food. By using Anna Shepard's criteria a bowl is described as an open form where the height is less than the diameter. The angle of the sides from the base are between 20 and 90 degrees.
This category matches Woolley's published ceramic vessel typology Nos. 4-6; 18-27; 29-30; 249. It matches the metal vessel typology Nos. 1-11; 15-17; 27-35; 86-91; 95-96; 116-118. It matches the stone vessel typology Nos. 13-27; 31-59; 95-97; 99; 102-104.
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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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7043 | (none) | (none) | B16571.64 | Clay bowl. Light drab. Type [LXXXI crossed out.]XC26. =L. | |
 | 7044 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. Light drab. Type XCIII. RC.132. =P.23a or =P.108 |
| 7045 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. Light drab. Type CCLXX =P.8b |
| 7083 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. Greenish drab. Type CCLXIX. =L. |
| 7084 | (none) | 1935,0113.389 | (none) | Clay bowl. Black. Finely burnished. Type. | |
| 7106 | (none) | (none) | B16629 | Clay bowl. Design roughly painted in black on ground. Found inverted; under it, dates. Type CCLXXVIII. =L. | |
| 7135 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Bronze. Fragmentary. Base lost. Cf. U.7135. B. |
| 7136 | (none) | (none) | B16433 | Bowl. Bronze. Mouth chipped. Oval shaped. Cf. U.7135. E. [drawing 1:2] |
| 7141 | (none) | 1927,0527.265 | (none) | Clay sacrificial urn. Black painted decoration. Ribbed. Prehistoric. [A] Ox rib fragment found inside. E. |
| 7145 | (none) | (none) | B16226 | Stone bowl. Fragment of Dark steatite. On the outside, a row of scorpions carved in low relief. | |
| 7576A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 clay bowls. Glazed. Blue, bleached white. Found together one firmly waged into the other. Portion of rim of B missing. Type CCLXXVI. =P.24 Kassite. |
| 7576B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 clay bowls. Glazed. Blue, bleached white. Found together one firmly wedged into the other. Portion of rim of B missing. Type CCLXXVI. =P.24 Kassite. |
| 7595 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Copper. Broken and fragmentary. [drawing 1:2] Look up in analysis. Not in 63a 23a 57. |
| 7624 | (none) | (none) | B17405 | Bowl. Copper. [drawing 2:5] Where are field notes? | |
| 7637 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Calcite. White. Type LI. |
| 7647 | (none) | 1928,1009.517 | (none) | Stone bowl. Calcite. White. Blackened by fire. Type X stone. |
| 7648 | (none) | (none) | B17156 | Stone bowl. Calcite. White. Blackened by fire. Half of rim missing. Type LIII. | |
| 7650 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Basic diorite. Green. Small portion of rim missing. Type LIV stone. |
| 7651 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Basic diorite. Green. Broken and riveted in antiquity. Type VII stone. |
| 7655 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Calcite. Semi-translucent. Greenish. Broken but complete. Type XXIV stone. |
| 7840 | (none) | 1928,1009.421 | (none) | Stone bowl. Calcite. Inscribed A-gir-gal. Type 39 new. HC.43 [drawing] |
| 7870 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper bowl. Fairly heavy metal, very slight rim along edge. Cracked and distorted but intact. III |
| 7885 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper bowl. The base all smashed in. Sides nearly vertical; but it may have been hemispherical once. |
| 7891 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper bowl. Nearly hemispherical. Cracked and distorted. On the outside was marking of reed mat - not burnt. Inside, remains kept for analysis. |
| 7892 | (none) | 1935,0113.399 | (none) | Copper bowl. Sides rather straight curving off sharply to the base, which is all broken away. |