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) |
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7624 | (none) | (none) | B17405 | Bowl. Copper. [drawing 2:5] Where are field notes? | |
![]() | 7637 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Calcite. White. Type LI. |
7648 | (none) | (none) | B17156 | Stone bowl. Calcite. White. Blackened by fire. Half of rim missing. Type LIII. | |
![]() | 7650 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Basic diorite. Green. Small portion of rim missing. Type LIV stone. |
![]() | 7651 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Basic diorite. Green. Broken and riveted in antiquity. Type VII stone. |
![]() | 7655 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Calcite. Semi-translucent. Greenish. Broken but complete. Type XXIV stone. |
![]() | 7870 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper bowl. Fairly heavy metal, very slight rim along edge. Cracked and distorted but intact. III |
![]() | 7885 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper bowl. The base all smashed in. Sides nearly vertical; but it may have been hemispherical once. |
![]() | 7891 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper bowl. Nearly hemispherical. Cracked and distorted. On the outside was marking of reed mat - not burnt. Inside, remains kept for analysis. |
7933 | (none) | (none) | B17442 | Bowl. Copper. Type III. | |
![]() | 7938 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Calcite. White. Portion of rim missing. Stone type LVII. |
7943 | (none) | (none) | B17173 | Bowl. Limestone. White. Type LX stone | |
7947 | (none) | (none) | B17305 | Bowl. Limestone. White. Broken and part of base missing. Stone type XII. | |
![]() | 7965 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper bowl. In bad condition, distorted and the base all broken away. |
![]() | 7973 | (none) | (none) | B17547 | Copper bowl or cauldron. In very bad condition. Type LVI. |
![]() | 7982A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Two copper bowls. One with a well-marked ring base. Both damaged, corroded together, probably more or less hemispherical in shape. Type _. |
7994 | (none) | (none) | B17406 | Copper bowl. Oval, almost boat-shaped. In good condition but cracked. In it were several lumps of copper, apparently unformed. [type] LXIII. | |
![]() | 8031 | (none) | (none) | B17149 | Stone bowl. Hard dark grey stone. Well polished. Broken in antiquity and riveted: now found broken. Type LXII. |
8032 | (none) | (none) | B17179 | Stone bowl White limestone, good quality An oval bowl with small horizontal lug handles Type LXIV | |
![]() | 8038 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper bowl. Hemispherical. Part of one side chipped, but initially complete. [Type] III |
![]() | 8046 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper bowl Hemispherical In remarkably good condition. Found inside U8045 [Type] III |
8047 | (none) | (none) | B17163 | White limestone pot. With almost vertical carinated sides. Type LXX 8. | |
![]() | 8051 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper bucket. The sides rise vertically and then slope inwards to an apparently straight rim in which is set a thin copper handle. The bottom plate is bent up and rivetted to the sides: the rim is formed by bending the top of the sides outwards and downwards and then rivetting along the edge. A good deal crushed and distorted, the handle broken. XCI. Type__ Photo__ |
![]() | 8052 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Greenish stone (basic diorite?). Anciently broken & rivetted. Found in fragments. Type _. |
8057 | (none) | (none) | B17443 | Bowl. [CARD MISSING] |