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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 11817 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl. Veined calcite: surface decayed: shallow, straight-sided. |
| 11818 | (none) | 1929,1017.668 | (none) | Stone Bowl. White calcite. Broken. Straight-sided. |
| 11819 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl. White limestone, straight-sided (broken). |
| 11821 | (none) | 1929,1017.63 | (none) | Silver Bowl. Oval, usual tubular handle-rings of electrum. Distorted & in bad condition. |
| 11826B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group of Copper Objects. Oxidized together. [A] (1) Copper Pin; type I. [B] (2) Copper Bowl: hemispherical. [C] (3) Copper Tumbler(?) or box(?) (the top not visible, being inside the bowl). |
| 11831 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Limestone Bowl or trough. Rough. |
| 11837B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A] Silver Ewer & [B] Patten. Corroded together. Ewer usual libation. (one side badly broken). Patten, with foot & carinated rim (also badly broken). |
| 11849 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl. White limestone (broken) hemisperical with flattened base. |
| 11851 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl. White Calcite. Broken in antiquity & mended with lead rivets which have now given way. |
| 11853 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl. Grey steatite. Flattened hemispherical: round the outside, a line at the rim & below this concentric circles incised; broken & part missing. Broken in antiquity & mended with copper rivets which have been broken. |
| 11861A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 Copper Bowls. Hemispherical. A pair of the same size (1 broken in halves) |
| 11861B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 Copper Bowls. Hemispherical. A pair of the same size (1 broken in halves) |
| 11869 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Bowl. Hemispherical. |
| 11870 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl. Dark greenish steatite (broken) with low base-button. |
| 11876A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group of copper vessels. (A) Oval bowl; (B) Hemispherical bowl; (C) Strainer; (D) Tubular pot; (E) Cooking-pot. |
| 11876B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group of copper vessels. (A) Oval bowl; (B) Hemispherical bowl; (C) Strainer; (D) Tubular pot; (E) Cooking-pot. |
| 11880 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Bowl. |
| 11920A | (none) | 1929,1017.628 | (none) | [A-D] Copper Bowls. 6, one inside the other. one hemispherical (with small button base. One ditto, slightly smaller and 4 oval. Types III and LXIII | |
| 11922 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Patten [Drawing] [Annotated] Type XXVIII |
| 11924 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Bowl. Oval, with verticular tubular handles. Type LXIII |
| 11926 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Limestone Bowl. (chipped, and the surface badly decayed). |
| 11937 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Cauldron. [Drawing] Type XXI |
| 11943 | (none) | 1935,0113.758 | (none) | Stone Bowl. White calcite (broken) Flattened hemispherical-no base. Type LXVIII |
| 11949A | (none) | 1930,1213.574a | (none) | [A-B] 2 Stone Bowls. White limestone (one smashed) One was inverted over the other and between them was a [C] cochle shell containing light green paint Type XXIII |
| 11951 | (none) | 1929,1017.639 | (none) | Copper Bowl. Hemispherical. Type III |