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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 17079 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Copper. [drawing] |
| 17080 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Baked clay. Burnished. Brown. Type I)LXiV |
| 17149 | (none) | 1930,1213.467 | (none) | Clay bowl. Large, with flat base and straight somewhat everted sides. Al 'Obaid ware with a band of decoration in black round the rim and just above the base broken and incomplete, but a considerable fragment. Type aU.51 [Al 'Obaid typology?] [drawing] | |
| 17235 | (none) | (none) | (none) | White calcite bowl. (fragment) Remains of the inscription of a king: (?-^dEN)ZU. HC. |
| 17305 | 31-43-585 | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Baked clay. Light drab. Decorated with an incised tree(?) and a serpent (?) turned round the trunk(?). Type 1DLXII. |
| 1735 | (none) | (none) | B15768 | Bowl. Light red clay with creamy slip. P. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 1736 | (none) | 1924,0920.141 | (none) | Bowl. Greenish white clay. Same type as U.1735 but rim much chipped. Same size. | |
| 17364 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Miniature. Baked clay. Glazed. Blue. Type CCCLV. Persian. =103a. |
| 17374 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Baked clay. Egg shell ware. Type new 5bP. |
| 1739 | (none) | 1924,0920.135 | (none) | Miniature vase. Light drab clay. Handmade. Cf. RC.83c [drawing] |
| 17681 | 32-40-142 | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Pink limestone. Not RC or L [drawing] | |
| 17750 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Calcareous sandstone. Cross scratched on base. [drawing] |
| 17770 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper bowl. [drawing] |
| 17771 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper bowl. [Type] XV. [drawing] |
| 17772 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper bowl. Bent over rim. [drawing] |
| 17789 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Copper. [drawing] |
| 17790 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Copper. [drawing] |
| 17842C | (none) | 1932,1008.6 | (none) | Beads. A mixed lot. 192 carnelian bugles. 56 carnelian double conoids, lentoids and barrels. 11 large carnelian double conoids and facetted lentoids. 421 carnelian rings. 81 larger carnelian rings. 41 glazed frit balls. 43 lapis lazuli, rings, bugles, ovoids, small mixed beads, apatite (?) quartzite, shell, agate and crystal. |
| 17875 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper bowl. With base ring. Type RC.116. [additional notes on back of catalog card][drawing] |
| 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] |
| 17917M | (none) | (none) | (none) | Burial group. (A) 3 twisted gold hair-ribbons [A, I and O]. (B) 2 gold frontlets [B and P]. (C) Pair of gold hair-rings, spirally coiled, lunated ends [C and Q]. (D) Tubular gold 4 spiral finger ring. (E) Necklace of gold flat diamonds, gold double conoids, carnelian lentoids, bugles and barrels and diamonds, agate barrels. (F) Necklace of gold balls, agate barrels, flat lentoid agate, carnelian bugles, etc. (G) 4 silver bracelets [G and R-T]. (H) Remains of 2 copper bases, from above grave. [H and U] [J-N are metal vessels with drawings but no descriptive text][drawing] |
| 17930E | (none) | (none) | (none) | Burial group. (A) Fragments of twisted hair ribbon. (B) One gold spirally coiled hair ring, hollow lunated ends. (C) Strings of beads on copper wire, alternate steatite and shell painted with gold, terminating in boss of steatite inlaid with shell panels alternately painted yellow. (D) Necklace of gold diamonds, gold ribbed balls, flat lentoid agates, barrel, carnelians, diamond carnelians, and lentoid steatite, etc. Carnelian balls. (E) Copper bowl. |
| 17994 | (none) | 1932,1008.285 | (none) | Glazed saucer. Persian. Type 755. =42P. [drawing 1:2] | |
| 18103 | 32-40-1 | (none) | (none) | Vase of glazed frit. The sides are decorated with petals in relief which were colored alternately yellow and black (?): the colors are bleached and the black (?) scarcely shows. [drawing] | |
| 18118 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Very dark steatite. Decorated on the outside with a procession of 5 bulls standing with the bodies in profile and the head turned outwards: bodies in fairly high relief, heads in the round. Over the back of each animal an ear of barley. Very fine work. A chip out of the (plain) rim and a larger break which has taken off the head of one of the balls = otherwise in perfect condition, straight-sided bowl. |