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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 16539 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl fragment, white calcite. Dungi. H.C. 30/I, 10 |
| 16651 | (none) | 1931,1010.293 | (none) | Bowl, bronze. Straight sided platter type. as U.18694 | |
| 16652 | 31-43-593 | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Baked clay. Egg shell ware. Type CCXXXVI. 3bP [P3b?] | |
| 16693 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Baked clay bowl. Egg shell ware. Broken but complete. Type _. = 2a new P. [drawing] |
| 16706 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Baked clay bowl. Green glazed. Type IDLXIII. |
| 16723 | (none) | 1931,1010.105 | (none) | Stone Bowl. Greenish grey steatite or basic diorite(?). Trough spout. Decorated with concentric circles round upper portion of body. Type _. see field notes for drawing. |
| 16770 | (none) | 1931,1010.294 | (none) | Copper pan. Type _. [drawing] | |
| (none) | (none) | 1930,1213.194 | (none) | (none) | |
| 17029 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Baked clay. Glazed. Traces of yellow bleached white. Type [LXVII RC236 and 217 crossed out] 215P. |
| 17032 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Baked clay glazed. Bleached white. Type LXVII = RC.236. =217P. |
| 17052 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Baked clay. Glazed. Blur. Type LXXXii =44P (TA) |
| 17055 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Copper. Metal type. [drawing 1:1] |
| 17063 | (none) | 1931,1010.552 | (none) | Bowl. Baked clay. Egg shell ware. Light drab. Type [CCXXXVI crossed out] see field notes. Draw. Type 4 P. (TA) | |
| 17079 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Copper. [drawing] |
| 17080 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Baked clay. Burnished. Brown. Type I)LXiV |
| (none) | 31-43-507 | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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] |