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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8032 | (none) | (none) | B17179 | Stone bowl White limestone, good quality An oval bowl with small horizontal lug handles Type LXIV | |
 | 8663 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl White limestone. (Broken and mended, but piece missing from rim). Type XII |
| 8062 | (none) | (none) | B17247 | Stone bowl of poor quality white limestone. The surface much decayed. Type IX but with slight ring to base. | |
| 19272 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl Basic diorite. Type JNG 10 |
| 14917 | (none) | 1930,1213.264 | (none) | Stone bowl (broken). Not in cat. |
| 19596 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl (miniature). White limestone. Type 24 |
| 3291 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl - Diorite. Fragment. Inscription of: (To the god?) Ri-m(u-us), king of Kish, when (he defeated Elam?) |
| 20015 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl Diorite. JN 50 |
| 210 | (none) | 1923,1110.43 | (none) | Stone bowl Fragment. (joined up from 2) of a bowl of fine-grained black stone: on the outside carved in low relief, long-horned oxen: of one the whole body and one horn remaining, head missing: of the other, only a fragment of the hind-quarters: the tail of the second animal is short and curled and it may well be other than an ox. |
| 822 | (none) | 1923,1110.61 | (none) | Stone bowl of coarse grey limestone, chip out of rim. |
| 820 | (none) | (none) | B14979 | Stone bowl of coarse whitish limestone, almost of marble. | |
| 818 | (none) | 1923,1110.62 | (none) | Stone bowl of grey fine-grained slatey stone. Broken, but virtually complete. Sides straight, base flat. |
| 821 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl of rose-pink mottled stone (marble?) |
| 8540 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl of stongly veined calcite. Shallow and straight-sided, much broken and surface decayed. Type XXV. |
| 8216 | (none) | 1928,1009.507 | (none) | Stone bowl of strongly veined calcite. Type LXXI. |
| 8218 | (none) | 1928,1009.516 | (none) | Stone bowl of translucent whtie calcite? or quartzite found broken and mended. Type LXVII. |
| 18519 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl or mortar. Limestone. The outside left rough. [Type] 26. [drawing] |
| 18865 | 35-1-40 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl, fragment of. Greenish steatite, with roughly engraved pattern on sides. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 18807 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl, fragment of. White calcite. With 10 columns of inscription damaged and incomplete. Inscription of Shul-gi (Dungi) |
| 6579 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl, fragment. Black steatite. Ur. |
| 19743 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl, White limestone, coarse. JN 3 |
| 8319 | (none) | 1928,1009.514 | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone, plain. Type XXIII. |
| 8347 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Dark greenish steatite. The edge ornamented by nicking in a chevron pattern. Type IX. |
| 8063 | (none) | 1928,1009.519 | (none) | Stone bowl. Dark steatite. Finely polished. Type LXII. |
| 8240 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Dark steatite. Well polished. Type LIX. |