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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 10819E | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tomb Group. A. [A and F] Two copper pins, both broken, one with a plain the other with a fluted lapis ball head. Tip of second missing. Type V B. [B and G] pair of cockle shells containing black and green paint. C. necklace of lapis and silver double conoids and carnelian ring beads. For order see Field Notes. D. [D.1-.2] Pair of silver earrings 2 1/2 coils E. A limestone bowl. Type XII |
| 10822C | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tomb Group. A. Silver pin with fluted lapis ball head and fluted gold cap. Type V. B. Lapis lazuli cylinder seal, 2 registers: Upper: scorpion, kneeling hero fighting rampant lions, (a panther?), a striped zebu, and behind them a standing skirted male figure. Lower: gate of a shrine and within it seated figures drinking through straws, 3 seated figures, and 2 standing attendants. C. Limestone Bowl. Type XII D. Necklace of silver and lapis double conoids with 3 large facetted beads, 2 carnelian, 1 gold. For order see Field Note. |
| 10844 | (none) | 1928,1010.443 | (none) | Bowl White calcite The surface of the stone much decayed [drawing] [Type] 71 (=66 new) |
| 10849 | (none) | 1928,1010.395 | (none) | Copper Bowl Flattened hemisphere: no base Type III | |
| 10850 | (none) | (none) | B17693 | Gold Bowl Oval (slightly distorted and flattened) of heavy and fairly pure gold: the sides fluted: engraved round the rim a double line of herring-bone pattern: the flutings end in points giving a chevron effect: the same 2 elements are repeated at the bottom against the raised oval base on which is engraved a 12-petalled rosette on a background of concentric elipses. At the middle of the sides level with rim. 2 handles each of 2 vertical gold tubes meant to take wire. | |
| 10851 | (none) | 1928,1010.4 | (none) | Gold Bowl Oval Plain, with raised oval base and slightly projecting rim: at each end is a strongly marked rib running from base to rim. In the centre of each side, just below the rim, is a double lug made of 3 short vertical gold tubes; through these pass the 2 strands of a loop handle made of a gold wire, square in section, and twisted to give a cable effect. |
| 10864 | (none) | 1928,1010.138 | (none) | Silver Bowl Oval With differentiated oval base, slight rim, and marked ribs at ends from base to rim: crushed and distorted. On the middle of each side, just below the rim, a lug made of a double silver tube to take a wire handle Type__ |
| 10865 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Bowl Originally circular: now broken and distorted: slightly raised circular flat base Probably hemispherical [Type] III |
| 10891 | (none) | (none) | B17077 | Silver Bowl Oval with 3 bands of fluting on the sides; 2 double silver wire handle is fixed to the 2 small lugs in the middle of each side Type LXXXIII | |
| 10902 | (none) | (none) | B17070 | Silver Bowl Hemispherical with low circular base Type III | |
| 10903 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Bowl hemispherical with slightly raised base (badly distorted) [Type] III |
| 10904 | (none) | (none) | B17071 | Silver Bowl Hemispherical with slight base, part of rim missing Type III |
| 10905 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Bowl Hemispherical with slight base distorted, and the rim chipped [Type] [struck out: "III"] |
| 10906 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Bowl orig. hemispherical with slight base; broken & distorted Type III |
| 10907 | (none) | (none) | B17069 | Two Silver Bowls corroded together. both very badly distorted Measurements impossible Type__ | |
| 10908 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Bowl Fragment only Orig. hemispherical with slight base. Type III |
| 10909 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Bowl Orig. hemispherical with slight base (broken & distorted) Type III |
| 10912B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Metal Vases A= Silver saucer with straight sides Type 28 (new) B= Corroded on to this are 2 copper bowls, one inside the other: both alike; hemispherical with slight base [Type] III |
| 10918 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Bowl fragment of (half only) orig. hemispherical with slight base. [Type] III |
| 10930 | (none) | (none) | B16707 | Gold Bowl. Oval. With slight rim, elliptical raised base, and double ribs at either and running from base to rim; in the middle of each side, just below the rim, a handle attached for a wire handle (missing) made of two short vertical and gold tubes. Slightly distorted. | |
| 10953 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Bowl. Hemispherical with slight base. Distorted. Type III. |
| 10957 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Bowl. Beaten out to the round, the base has been further hammered to bring it almost to a square: and this has modified the outline of the rim also. Type LXXVI. [drawing] |
| 10958 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. White calcite. Type XVII. [drawing] |
| 10959 | (none) | 1928,1010.446 | (none) | Bowl. Veined white calcite. [drawing] |
| 10962 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. White calcite. [drawing] |