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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 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] |
| 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. |
| 11550A | (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. |
| 11575 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Bowl. |
| 11589 | (none) | 1929,1017.667 | (none) | Stone Bowl. White calcite. (broken but complete). Type XXV. |
| 11675 | (none) | 1929,1017.61 | (none) | Calcite Bowl. Fragment. Dedication by a King of Ur: name mostly broken: possibly Mes-ki-ag-nun of 1st. Dyn.? |
| 11703 | (none) | (none) | B8547b | Copper Bowl. Oval in pretty good condition. Corroded on to it, in the inside, are a copper lamp and a hemispherical copper bowl. |
| 11712 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Bowl. Hemispherical. |
| 11730 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl. Dark steatite. Straight-sided. |
| 11733 | (none) | 1929,1017.658 | (none) | Stone Bowl. Bell-shaped. Dark steatite. Type LXVI | |
| 11746 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Bucket. With loop swing handle. Detail of handle; two vertical tubes soldered to rim: a wire passed through these looped above and turned up below: this goes through a loop in the end of the handle. |
| 11753 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl. White calcite. Miniature. |
| 11758 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl. White calcite. |
| 11759 | (none) | 1935,0113.757 | (none) | Stone Bowl. White calcite. Warped & broken. same type as U. 11758. but larger Type. LXXXIII |
| 11763 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Cauldron (the bottom is prized up). |
| 11765 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl. Dark greenish grey stone. |
| 11789 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl. Veined calcite, surface decayed (broken) straight-sided. |
| 11790 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl. Veined calcite. Surface decayed: broken, straight-sided. |
| 11792 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Bowl. Oblong. |
| 11793 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Bowl. Hemispherical. |
| 11794 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Bowl. Broken, distorted & decayed hemispherical? Design incised & in relief-below, conventional mountains (engraved), above, in relief, procession of mountain goats. |
| 11804 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Bowl. Oval with silver tubular handle-attachments. |