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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 18848 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Fragment of stone bowl. Steatite. Decorated in relief. [drawing 1:1] |
| 262 | (none) | (none) | B14948, B14948 | Fragment of stone bowl. Dedication to a god by Mu-da-da... Son of Sarrum-... on behalf of Ishme-Dagan. Copied and transliterated. Placed in IN/No. 1. |
| 271 | (none) | (none) | B14941, B14941 | Fragment of stone dish. Dedication by a priest of Nannar, "thy son" |
| 16529A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Fragment. Sin-igid(am). H.C. 30/III,2 |
| 6967 | (none) | (none) | B16209 | Fragment. Soapstone. Bowl incised. Inscribed E den( ), mighty king, king of Ur, king ( ). E. |
| 3292 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Fragments of bowl. White frit, originally glazed, with picture of gazelle (hind quarters only left) and flowers. |
| 14908 | 31-17-11 | (none) | (none) | Fragments. Of a small bowl of blue glazed frit. Shape uncertain. | |
| 791 | (none) | 1923,1110.144 | (none) | Glass bowl. Fragment of in heavy molded glass in opaque white and yellow on translucent pale green. Section [referencing drawing]. [drawing 1:1] |
| 2575 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Glass bowl. Fragmentary, blue glass, translucent, design of dots and lines. [drawing 1:1] |
| 3334 | 29-174-28 | (none) | (none) | Glazed bowl. Fragmentary and unornamented: with plain transparent glaze. | |
| 2621 | 29-174-27 | (none) | (none) | Glazed bowl. Reconstructed: drab clay, on low base: straight-sided. [drawing 1:2] | |
| 2620 | 29-174-26 | (none) | (none) | Glazed bowl. Reconstructed: with lotus design in relief outside: inside traces of flower design in color. =new type 2 (p) [drawing 1:2] | |
| 938 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Glazed clay bowl. Faded green glaze over buff clay. Wheelmade. Broken. Type XC =P.37 |
| 558 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Glazed clay bowl. Faded green glaze over drab clay. Wheelmade, broken. (Below) Type LXXIX. |
| 940 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Glazed clay bowl. Faded green glaze over drab clay. Wheelmade, broken. Type LXXX =P.46 |
| 17994 | (none) | 1932,1008.285 | (none) | Glazed saucer. Persian. Type 755. =42P. [drawing 1:2] | |
| 6666 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Godrooned bowl. Copper. |
| 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. |
| 10034 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Gold Bowl. (? electrum) Hemispherical with slight base broken nearly in halves. Found corroded to the copper tray (U.10036) and silver libation vase (U.10035). The decorated gold bowl, U.10003 was inside it, and so was the plain gold bowl U.10013 |
| 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. | |
| 10319 | (none) | 1928,1010.424 | (none) | Grey steatite Bowl Complete but badly broken Broken into many pieces and rivetted in antiquity Type XVIII |
| 11229 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Grey steatite Bowl. Carninated rim: below this 4 bands of incised triangles, and a band of incised diamonds round the flat rim. Broken and mended. [Type] 55(new). [drawing] |
| 10589B | (none) | 1928,1010.441 | (none) | Group A/ Beads, gold, silver, and lapis double conoids. B/ Bowl of white limestone, surface poor. Type__ C/ |
| 17912I | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group from one burial. (A) [A and J] 2 Gold frontlets. (B) [B and K]2 tubular gold bracelets (C) Gold earring, spirally coiled with lunate ends (D) [D and L] 2 silver bracelets, single wire (E) Cylinder seal, lapis lazuli, introductory scene, 2 standing figures and seated deity; crescent above god; (F) Necklace of gold balls between carnelian bugles, flat lentoid chalcedones, carnelian barrels, carnelian ball, agate lentoid, green chalcedone bugles. (G) Axe, type XVIII, [H-I] Copper objects [These are drawn on the field catalog card, but not assigned subdivisions by Woolley][drawing] |