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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 15446 | (none) | 1930,1213.679 | (none) | Baked clay bowl. Decorated below neck with impressed circles, and a thin band left in relief running vertically with the vertical axis of the pot. Type CCCLXXXIII. New (P)14. |
| 15464 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Baked clay bowl. Greyish drab. Burnished. Type CCCLXXXIV. 84. P. [P84?] |
| 15465 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads: glazed ring beads & cylindrical & some frit barrels. |
| 15469 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Baked clay bowl. Glazed. Type CCCL. 103b. P. [P.103b] |
| 15470 | 31-16-365 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Grey steatite. Decorated round rim with concentric circles. [drawing 2:5] | |
| 15495 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper bowl. [drawing 2:5] |
| 15497 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper bowl. Hemispherical. Miniature. [drawing 2:5] |
| 15505 | (none) | 1930,1213.196 | (none) | Clay cup. To painted ware. Chocolate brown on pinkish drab. (red clay) (in fragments, & very full of salt). Type CCCXLV. 25. [drawing] | |
| 15509 | (none) | 1930,1213.218 | (none) | Clay cup. TO painted ware. Dark brown on pinkish drab. ( in fragments) Type CCCXLV. 23. [drawing] | |
| 15510 | (none) | 1930,1213.199 | (none) | Clay cup. TO painted ware. Black on green (very thin walled) (in fragments( Type CCCXLV. 23. [drawing] | |
| 15517 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl, or platter. TO painted ware. Black on light drab. Type CCCLXVI. 4. [drawing] |
| 15521 | (none) | 1930,1213.209 | (none) | Clay platter. TO painted ware. Plain broad black border on green clay. Type CCCLXVI. 4. | |
| 15528 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. Painted ware. Pinkish drab with design very roughly done in a fugitive red paint now mostly flaked off. Type CCCLXXIII. 22. [drawing] |
| 15533 | (none) | 1930,1213.195 | (none) | Clay bowl. TO painted ware. Rough & handmade. Black paint on drab. Type CCCLXV. 3a. [drawing] | |
| 15534 | (none) | 1930,1213.216 | (none) | Clay cup. TO painted ware. Black on greenish drab. Type CCCXLV. 25. [drawing] | |
| 15535 | 31-17-313 | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. TO painted ware. Black bands on greenish buff. Type CCCLXXVI. 21. [drawing] | |
| 15540 | (none) | 1930,1213.222 | (none) | Clay cup. TO painted ware. Black on strong green. Type TO. CIII. 26. [drawing] | |
| 15543 | (none) | 1930,1213.191 | (none) | Clay cup. TO painted ware. Black on green. Type CCCXLV. 25. [drawing] | |
| 15546 | (none) | 1930,1213.208 | (none) | Clay bowl. TO painted ware. Black border, body of red clay with creamy slip. Type CCCLXXVIII. 6. | |
| 15548 | 31-17-295 | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. TO painted ware. Black rim on green. The inside of the bowl is roughened with impressed combing, probably for the bruising of grain. Type CCCLXI. 7. | |
| 15550 | (none) | 1930,1213.210 | (none) | Clay cup. TO painted ware. Black on green: (incomplete) Type CCCXLV. 25. [drawing] | |
| 15551 | (none) | 1930,1213.211 | (none) | Clay cup. TO painted ware. Black on warm buff (incomplete) Type CCCXLV. 25. [drawing] | |
| 15553 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. TO painted ware. Very wide black border on greenish drab. Type CCCLXXVII. 8. |
| 15554 | 31-17-292 | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. TO painted ware. Chocolate brown on light red clay, handmade. Type CCCLXV. 3a. | |
| 15557 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. TO painted ware. Chocolate brown on pink. Type CCCLXV. 3a. [drawing] |