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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 10184 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay Bowl Possibly used for bread making Raised ridge running round bottom possibly forming a runnel for the flour; gap in ridge to admit of addition of flour during stirring. cf. drawing. Type __ |
| 10309 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Bowl Hemispherical Type III =RC4 metal not among 1L Fg ps |
| 10388 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Steatite Bowl. Bell shaped. One side cut down in antiquity. Type LXII. |
| 10399 | (none) | (none) | B17183 | Steatite Bowl Rim chipped Roughly worked Type XVIII | |
| 10413 | (none) | (none) | B17340 | Copper Vessels a lamp, ordinary shell type fixed inside a shallow bowl with long handle (broken) & short splayed spout | |
| 10457A | (none) | (none) | B17297 | Silver Bowls 4 [A-D] Oxidised together 3 of oval type with little knob handles on the long sides, one hemispherical. Type __ Photo __ | |
| 10461 | (none) | (none) | B17073 | Silver Bowl In bad condition Type__ | |
| 10464 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Bowl. Oval, with oval base. Type LXIII | |
| 10480 | (none) | (none) | B17166 | Stone Bowl Calcite Translucent Light green Oval shaped with single rib at either end running from rim to base: double barrel lug handles in middle of each long side of bowl. Badly broken and part missing Type CIII | |
| 10481 | (none) | (none) | B17152 | Stone Bowl steatite grey Bell shaped Broken and mended. Small piece missing from rim and side Type LXVI | |
| 10484 | (none) | (none) | B17133 | Stone Bowl Calcite White Translucent [drawing] 2:5 Type LXIII | |
| 10497 | (none) | (none) | B17142 | Stone Bowl Calcite White Translucent Complete [drawing] Type CV | |
| 10499 | (none) | (none) | B17129 | Stone Bowl Calcite White Translucent Broken and mended. Part of rim missing Same type as U.10497 Type LXVII | |
| 10501 | (none) | (none) | B17131 | Stone Bowl Calcite White Translucent [drawing] Type LXIX | |
| 10506 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bow Steatite? Bell shaped. Badly broken: probably complete. Type LXII. |
| 10508 | (none) | (none) | B17307 | Stone bowl Steatite grey Broken & mended Parts of rim & side missing [drawing] 1:5 Type LI | |
| 10512 | (none) | (none) | B17134 | Stone Bowl Calcite White Translucent Badly broken, Complete? Animal bones found within Type__ | |
| 10513 | (none) | (none) | B17135 | Stone Bowl Calcite White Translucent Badly Broken Complete? Animal Bones found within: Type__ | |
| 10514 | (none) | (none) | B17138 | Stone Bowl Calcite White Tanslucent Badly Broken Virtually Complete Type__ | |
| 10516 | (none) | (none) | B17143 | Stone bowl Calcite White Unusual type Very badly broken. Probably virtually complete Large size Type__ | |
| 10517 | (none) | (none) | B17167 | Stone bowl lapis lazuli spouted (trough spout) [drawing] 2:5 Type CIX | |
| 10519 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl Steatite Bell shaped Rim entirely missing Unusually large & heavy Type LXII |
| 10523 | (none) | (none) | B17168 | Stone bowl Steatite Dark grey Decorates with minute triangle in relief set in 11 diamond shaped reserves with run round the entire circumference single lines of combed decoration below rim and above base Bowl stood on a baked clay ring base. q.v. U.10,524 complete but part of rim broken. [drawing] 2:5 Type CX | |
| 10527 | (none) | (none) | B17132 | Stone bowl Calcite White Complete [drawing] 2:5 Type IX | |
| 10528 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl Steatite Grey Bell Shaped Rim broken & part missing? Unusually large Type LXII |