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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 8316 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Two copper bowls. Fastened together by oxydation. both hemispherical: one in pretty good state, the other much bent. [Type] III. |
| 8319 | (none) | 1928,1009.514 | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone, plain. Type XXIII. |
| 8320 | (none) | (none) | B17306 | Stone bowl. White limestone, with nicked rim. (broken) Type IX. | |
| 8321 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. Type LX. |
| 8326 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone with nicked edge (broken and mended). Type XLIII. |
| 8328 | (none) | (none) | B17174 | Stone bowl. White limestone with nicked edge. Type XLIII. | |
| 8333 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver bowl. Oval, or boat-shaped with nearly vertical sides. In very bad condition, but waxed in situ and preserved. The measurements give a rather false idea of the vessel owing to its being crushed badly out of shape. The base measures 0075x0045 and is slightly sunk: the original width was probably c. 014 [Type] LXIII. |
| 8336 | (none) | 1928,1009.458 | (none) | Spoon-bowl(?) A white steatite(?) Almost flat but very slightly concave. On one side and more prominently convex on the other. Broken at the spring of the handle. [drawing] |
| 8340 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Triangular shape with out-curved sides and a trough spout at the apex of the triangle. [drawing] Type LXXVIII. |
| 8346 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Veined white calcite. A small chip out of the rim. Type LXXI. |
| 8347 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Dark greenish steatite. The edge ornamented by nicking in a chevron pattern. Type IX. |
| 8350 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl with straight low sides and ridge inside. Type TO/__ |
| 8352 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White calcite, the surface almost wholly perished. Carinated rim. Type __ |
| 8360A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A and B] Copper bowls. Two, [A] one inside the other. [B]The outer one broken, the inner intact. [Type] III |
| 8365 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper bowl. Oval, with sunk base, now all warped out of shape, cracked and broken. |
| 8372 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White calcite. Irregularly made and apparently cut down from a larger pot. Straight-sided [drawing] Type XXI. |
| 8373 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Strongly veined calcite(?) Very badly broken, and the surface much decayed. Type XXV. |
| 8379 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper bowl. [drawing] Type XIV. |
| 8386 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. Unusual breast-cup shape with 4 small horizontal lugs from rim vertically pierced. Type CXIX 43. |
| 8401 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Calcite. Yellowish. Veined. Stone type LXXIX. |
| 8402 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Calcite. White. Part of rim missing. Stone type LIII |
| 8407 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl or mortar? Limestone. White. Very thick in section. Stone type LXXX. |
| 8412 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl Copper [Type] 102 |
| 8413 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl Limestone White Broken and mended Stone type _ |
| 8435 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl Limestone White Poor condition Part of rim missing Stone type XL |