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)
13565 (none) (none) (none) Copper Bowl. Oval. Longitudinal view [reference to drawing] [drawing 2:5]
13569 (none) (none) (none) Stone Bowl. White calcite. Type XII. [drawing 2:5]
13571 31-17-173 (none) (none) Copper Bowl. Hemispherical.
13575 31-16-414 (none) (none) Stone Bowl. White calcite. Nicked rim. Type XLIII. [drawing]
13578 (none) (none) (none) Stone Bowl. Semitranslucent calcite. Badly broken. [drawing 2:5]
13579 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone. Type CXIV. [drawing]
13580 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Calcite. Greyish. Broken and riveted in antiquity. Type XXII. [drawing]
13581 (none) (none) (none) Copper bowl. Hemispherical.
13583 (none) (none) (none) Copper Bowl. [drawing]
13588 31-17-175 (none) (none) Copper Bowl. Flattened hemispherical. Distorted.
13589 (none) (none) (none) Stone Bowl. White calcite. Type see Field note. [Type] XLIII.
13590 (none) (none) (none) Copper Bowl. Hemispherical & distorted. Type III
13592 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. White translucent calcite. Type see Field note. Type 71. See field note.
13714 31-16-371 (none) (none) Stone bowl. Half of: Rather roughly worked in dark grey steatite. Type rough rimless variant of type RC112. Not in field notes. [drawing]
13715B (none) 1930,1213.302 (none) Clay pans. Low straight sides. 3 broad ribbon loop handles which bend down inwards and are attached to the base of the bowl inside about halfway between the center and the circumference. A = 2 handles broken and missing. Red clay with whitish slip. B Complete except for a chip : greenish clay. Not in Cat of Vol. IV
13717 31-16-483 (none) (none) Fragment of a small bowl. (Steatite?) Round the side in very low relief is a moulded rope pattern: from this rise imitation loop handles modeled in low relief, the tops of the loops comming to the rim of the bowl. [drawing]
13735 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Grey (basic diorite?) Straight-sided. RC150. [drawing]
13739 31-16-407 (none) (none) Stone bowl. Grey stone (basic diorite?) . [Type] RC229. [drawing]
13741 31-16-376 (none) (none) Stone bowl. Grey stone (basic diorite?). JN.26 new. [drawing]
13747 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Grey stone (basic diorite?) Broken & 1/3 missing. One hole is pierced through the middle of the bottom and two close together near the rim: cf. 13746. [drawing]
13753 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone. In antiquity broken in half and mended with 3 rivets (rivet-holes very large) The base not clearly defined. JN14 new. [drawing]
13754 31-16-453 (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone. The edges much chipped. ?[Type] RC20a. Jnu. [drawing]
13755 31-16-451 (none) (none) Stone Bowl. White limestone (restored from fragments). Jnu. Type X (RC20a) [drawing]
13756 31-16-434 (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone (restored from fragments). JN19. Type XV ? RC22b [drawing]
13757 31-16-435 (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone (restored from fragments, but imperfect). JN19. Type XV ? RC22b. [drawing]

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