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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 18487 | (none) | 1933,1013.145 | (none) | Bowl. [Type 27]. [drawing 2:5] |
| 6050 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Broken earthenware bowl. Drab clay. Type CXCVI. |
| 113 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bronze bowl. Godrooned: exact type of Deir Huzah bowls. [Annotated] Photo? |
| 481A | (none) | 1923,1110.138 | (none) | Bronze bowl. Plain. U.475 and U.476 are lying in this and fastened to it by corrosion.[drawing] | |
| 123 | (none) | (none) | B15280 | Bronze bowl. Upper part on one side broken, but virtually all frs. there and fitting together. Metal in good condition. Near the rim on the outside is a sun and moon pattern. [drawing] |
| 480 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bronze bowl. Very thin metal, complete. [drawing] When found, U.473 and U.474 were inside it, lying on their sides and corroded onto it. |
| 16379 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bronze bowl. [drawing] |
| 19198 | (none) | 1935,0112.95 | (none) | Bronze harpoon. Arrow type 4a. | |
| 157 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bronze situla (?) But seemingly solid, perhaps owing to oxidation only: with frs. of chain. |
| 18871 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bronze situla. Very good condition. |
| 482 | (none) | (none) | B15290 | Bronze [crossed out] Silver bowl. Much corroded and one side broken.[drawing] | |
| 19350 | (none) | 1935,0112.105 | (none) | Brown 'smoked' ware. Imitation of stone. (new) JN 22 [much marked through and corrected on card] | |
| 17917M | (none) | (none) | (none) | Burial group. (A) 3 twisted gold hair-ribbons [A, I and O]. (B) 2 gold frontlets [B and P]. (C) Pair of gold hair-rings, spirally coiled, lunated ends [C and Q]. (D) Tubular gold 4 spiral finger ring. (E) Necklace of gold flat diamonds, gold double conoids, carnelian lentoids, bugles and barrels and diamonds, agate barrels. (F) Necklace of gold balls, agate barrels, flat lentoid agate, carnelian bugles, etc. (G) 4 silver bracelets [G and R-T]. (H) Remains of 2 copper bases, from above grave. [H and U] [J-N are metal vessels with drawings but no descriptive text][drawing] |
| 17930E | (none) | (none) | (none) | Burial group. (A) Fragments of twisted hair ribbon. (B) One gold spirally coiled hair ring, hollow lunated ends. (C) Strings of beads on copper wire, alternate steatite and shell painted with gold, terminating in boss of steatite inlaid with shell panels alternately painted yellow. (D) Necklace of gold diamonds, gold ribbed balls, flat lentoid agates, barrel, carnelians, diamond carnelians, and lentoid steatite, etc. Carnelian balls. (E) Copper bowl. |
| 9743 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Calcite Bowl Poor condition Surface reddened and powdered through decay Type XVIII |
| 9724 | (none) | (none) | B17136 | Calcite bowl Translucent Type XVIII | |
| 11675 | (none) | 1929,1017.61 | (none) | Calcite Bowl. Fragment. Dedication by a King of Ur: name mostly broken: possibly Mes-ki-ag-nun of 1st. Dyn.? |
| 8718 | (none) | 1928,1010.440 | (none) | Card Missing |
| 6175 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. Drab. Type [CXXI variant crossed out] Not type. |
| 15386 | (none) | 1930,1213.198 | (none) | Clay cup. TO painted ware. Type CCCXLV. 23 [drawing] | |
| 6213A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay (bowl) pot [pot seems to correct circled bowl]. Light drab. Mouth painted black Vertical markings about 10mm in length run from neck painted black. Identical with U.6034. Type CCXXII =CCXI, =RC.185, =L.91b [drawing] |
| 10184 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay Bowl Possibly used for bread making Raised ridge running round bottom possibly forming a runnel for the flour; gap in ridge to admit of addition of flour during stirring. cf. drawing. Type __ |
| 802 | (none) | 1923,1110.81 | (none) | Clay bowl (broken) of egg-shell ware in fine light red clay. Hemispherical, round bottomed. Type XCV. =new type 3.a | |
| 15608 | 31-17-316 | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl (fragments: imperfect) TO painted ware. Brownish black on drab. Type CCCXCI(?). 19. [drawing] | |
| 6571 | (none) | 1927,0527.289 | (none) | Clay bowl fragmentary. Glazed. Light drab and trace of blue on outside. |