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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10513 | (none) | (none) | B17135 | Stone Bowl Calcite White Translucent Badly Broken Complete? Animal Bones found within: Type__ | |
| 10514 | (none) | (none) | B17138 | Stone Bowl Calcite White Tanslucent Badly Broken Virtually Complete Type__ | |
| 10516 | (none) | (none) | B17143 | Stone bowl Calcite White Unusual type Very badly broken. Probably virtually complete Large size Type__ | |
| 10517 | (none) | (none) | B17167 | Stone bowl lapis lazuli spouted (trough spout) [drawing] 2:5 Type CIX | |
 | 10519 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl Steatite Bell shaped Rim entirely missing Unusually large & heavy Type LXII |
| 10522 | (none) | 1928,1010.428 | (none) | Stone Bowl steatite grey Complete Outisde of bowl decorated with 8 rows of triangles in relief. Each triangle has oblique incisions cut parallel with the 2 sides. Round middle of bowl a plain rib dividing 4 upper rows of triangles from the four lower rows [drawing] Type CX |
| 10523 | (none) | (none) | B17168 | Stone bowl Steatite Dark grey Decorates with minute triangle in relief set in 11 diamond shaped reserves with run round the entire circumference single lines of combed decoration below rim and above base Bowl stood on a baked clay ring base. q.v. U.10,524 complete but part of rim broken. [drawing] 2:5 Type CX | |
| 10527 | (none) | (none) | B17132 | Stone bowl Calcite White Complete [drawing] 2:5 Type IX | |
| 10528 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl Steatite Grey Bell Shaped Rim broken & part missing? Unusually large Type LXII |
| 10547 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl Steatite Decorated with one row of incised concentric circles Type. see Field Note. [Type] CXV |
| 10554 | (none) | (none) | B17067 | Silver Bowl Oval, with cone base Type__ | |
| 10568 | (none) | (none) | B17439 | Copper Bowl With small circular base, flat | |
| 10589B | (none) | 1928,1010.441 | (none) | Group A/ Beads, gold, silver, and lapis double conoids. B/ Bowl of white limestone, surface poor. Type__ C/ |
| 10724 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Bowl. Oval shaped. Distorted. Type LXIII |
| 10730 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Bowl Hemispherical Part of Bottom Missing [Type] III |
| 10731 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Bowl Hemispherical Part of rim missing [Type] III |
| 10732 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl Calcite White Very low insides Type LXXXIII |
| 10743 | (none) | (none) | B16939 | Copper Bowl Hemispherical Type__ | |
| 10759 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Cauldron Type 49 (new) |
| 10761 | (none) | (none) | B17540 | Copper Bucket With copper ring handle XXIII New 46 | |
| 10763B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin with copper ball head corroded on to a flattened hemispherical copper bowl Pin perforated through upper portion of stem to admit a copper ring. Copper bowl in poor condition and distorted Type V [drawing] |
| 10769 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Bowl. Hemispherical. A few lapis double conoid beads found within. These formed a bracelet. |
| 10773 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Bowl Hemispherical [Type] III New 4 |
| 10774 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Bowl Hemispherical [Type] III New 4 |
| 10799 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Cauldron Bent and battered Type XLIV |