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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 12260 | (none) | 1929,1017.659 | (none) | Stone Bowl. Dark grey steatite. Badly broken. type same as U.11545. [Type]LXII |
| 12265 | (none) | 1929,1017.664 | (none) | Stone Bowl. Alabaster. Type same as U.12236. [Type] LXXI. |
| 12267 | 30-12-99 | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl. White calcite. Badly broken. Broken & rivetted in antiquity. | |
| 12276 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl. White calcite. badly broken. |
| 12294 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Bowl. Oval type with silver tubular handle rims. [Type LXIII] |
| 12299 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl. Dark steatite. Type XXIV. [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] |
| 12315 | (none) | 1929,1017.671 | (none) | Stone Bowl. Limestone. Rim chipped. Type CXIV. [drawing] |
| 12317A | (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. |
| 12320 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl. White calcite. Badly broken. |
| 12321 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl. White calcite. Type. Same as U.12265 but more squat LXXI. |
| 12322 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl. Bad sandstone. Badly broken. |
| 12328 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl. White calcite. Type LXXV. [drawing 2:5] |
| 12337 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Bowl. Plain circular type with low side. [Type] III. =RC.4. |
| 12437 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper bowl. [drawing] |
| 12441 | 30-12-427 | (none) | (none) | Silver bowl. Oval = Crushed and distorted. [Type] LXIII. | |
| 12485C | 30-12-432D | (none) | (none) | Copper tray etc. [A] [Tray] [Tray type] XXV (new 31) Attached by corrosion to the inside of this are [drawing] [B] 1 copper vessel [Type] XXXVI (new 81), with long trough spout [drawing] [C-E] 3 copper hemispherical bowls, [F-I] Copper vases [Type] LXI, four more or less alike and [J] one [Type] XLV. All corroded together. [drawing] [additional notes on back: 4 bowls BM 121663 1 broken (illegible) from 1927-8 unclear if this is related to the 3 bowls listed in entry] | |
| 12485D | 30-12-432D | (none) | (none) | Copper tray etc. [A] [Tray] [Tray type] XXV (new 31) Attached by corrosion to the inside of this are [drawing] [B] 1 copper vessel [Type] XXXVI (new 81), with long trough spout [drawing] [C-E] 3 copper hemispherical bowls, [F-I] Copper vases [Type] LXI, four more or less alike and [J] one [Type] XLV. All corroded together. [drawing] [additional notes on back: 4 bowls BM 121663 1 broken (illegible) from 1927-8 unclear if this is related to the 3 bowls listed in entry] | |
| 12485E | 30-12-432D | (none) | (none) | Copper tray etc. [A] [Tray] [Tray type] XXV (new 31) Attached by corrosion to the inside of this are [drawing] [B] 1 copper vessel [Type] XXXVI (new 81), with long trough spout [drawing] [C-E] 3 copper hemispherical bowls, [F-I] Copper vases [Type] LXI, four more or less alike and [J] one [Type] XLV. All corroded together. [drawing] [additional notes on back: 4 bowls BM 121663 1 broken (illegible) from 1927-8 unclear if this is related to the 3 bowls listed in entry] | |
| 12485F | 30-12-432A | (none) | (none) | Copper tray etc. [A] [Tray] [Tray type] XXV (new 31) Attached by corrosion to the inside of this are [drawing] [B] 1 copper vessel [Type] XXXVI (new 81), with long trough spout [drawing] [C-E] 3 copper hemispherical bowls, [F-I] Copper vases [Type] LXI, four more or less alike and [J] one [Type] XLV. All corroded together. [drawing] [additional notes on back: 4 bowls BM 121663 1 broken (illegible) from 1927-8 unclear if this is related to the 3 bowls listed in entry] | |
| 12486 | 30-12-254 | (none) | (none) | Copper bowl. [Type] XLIV. [drawing] | |
| 12487A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A] Copper cauldron [drawing, labeled: XXIV] To which is attached by corrosion a [B] copper bowl thus [drawing, labeled: XLVII] with small horizontal loop handles |
| 12487B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A] Copper cauldron [drawing, labeled: XXIV] To which is attached by corrosion a [B] copper bowl thus [drawing, labeled: XLVII] with small horizontal loop handles |
| 12492 | (none) | 1929,1017.670 | (none) | Bowl of white limestone. The edge of the rim nicked on the outside. Type XLIII. [drawing] |
| 124A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 Bronze bowls. One inside the other, corroded together. [drawing] (A) In good condition. (B) Inside it one apparently thus: but base all gone. |