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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 10970 | (none) | 1935,0113.755 | (none) | Veined calcite Bowl. |
| 10972 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Veined white calcite Bowl.Type XXI. [drawing] |
| 10973 | (none) | (none) | (none) | White limestone Bowl. Broken. |
| 11100 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper bowl. Hemispherical. Type III. |
| 11103 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Bowl. Hemisperical. [Type] III. |
| 11120 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Bowl. Flattened hemispherical. [Type] III |
| 11122 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper bowl. Hemispherical Broken in 2 pieces. |
| 11203 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Bowl. Hemispherical. Distorted. |
| 11217 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Bowl. Hemispherical. |
| 11227 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Bucket. Broken and distorted. Typee XXII. [drawing] |
| 11229 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Grey steatite Bowl. Carninated rim: below this 4 bands of incised triangles, and a band of incised diamonds round the flat rim. Broken and mended. [Type] 55(new). [drawing] |
| 11479 | 30-12-431 | (none) | (none) | Copper Bowl. Hemispherical. Cracked & a fragment missing from the base. [type] III | |
| 11487 | 30-12-76 | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Of white calcite. Broken & rivetted in antiquity. Broken but complete found covered with matting of which the imprint remains. Type LXXI. [drawing] | |
| 11498 | (none) | 1929,1017.674 | (none) | Stone Bowl. White limestone. Type XXIII. [drawing] |
| 11518 | (none) | 1929,1017.665 | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone with slight base & 2 small horizontal lugs. Type CXVII. [drawing] |
| 11523A | (none) | 1929,1017.645 | (none) | Group of copper objects. Found together. (A) Copper bowl, hemispherical. Type III. (B) Copper Adze. (C) Copper dagger riveted tang. (D) Copper knife. | |
| 11526 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper bowl. Oval. |
| 11537 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl. Limestone (broken & in poor condition) small flattened base. Type LXVII. [drawing] |
| 11540A | (none) | 1929,1017.633 | (none) | Copper vessels. An oval bowl and inside it a hemispherical bowl. Also fragments of a long-handled strainer. [Type] LXIII, III |
| 11542 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl. Dark steatite having at the sides 2 slight ridges making rudimentary lugs. Type CXVII. |
| 11543 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl. White calcite. Oval, with raised base, end ribs & double vertical lugs, an exact translation of the metal type. Poor condition. New type 96. |
| 11544 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Oval Bowl. White calcite, with ribbed ends and lug handles on a hollow pedestal (surface decayed and rim much perished). New type 99. [Type] CIX. [drawing] |
| 11549 | 30-12-81 | (none) | (none) | Soapstone, bell-shaped bowl. Type LXVI. | |
| 11550B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group of silver vessels. Miniatures. (A-C) three silver bowls, oval with gold tubular handle-rings. All corroded together, and fixed on to them [D] a silver tumbler. |
| 11550C | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group of silver vessels. Miniatures. (A-C) three silver bowls, oval with gold tubular handle-rings. All corroded together, and fixed on to them [D] a silver tumbler. |