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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 13578 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl. Semitranslucent calcite. Badly broken. [drawing 2:5] |
| 13579 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. Type CXIV. [drawing] |
| 13580 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Calcite. Greyish. Broken and riveted in antiquity. Type XXII. [drawing] |
| 13581 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper bowl. Hemispherical. |
| 13583 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Bowl. [drawing] |
| 13588 | 31-17-175 | (none) | (none) | Copper Bowl. Flattened hemispherical. Distorted. | |
| 13589 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl. White calcite. Type see Field note. [Type] XLIII. |
| 13590 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Bowl. Hemispherical & distorted. Type III |
| 13592 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White translucent calcite. Type see Field note. Type 71. See field note. |
| 13714 | 31-16-371 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Half of: Rather roughly worked in dark grey steatite. Type rough rimless variant of type RC112. Not in field notes. [drawing] | |
| 13717 | 31-16-483 | (none) | (none) | Fragment of a small bowl. (Steatite?) Round the side in very low relief is a moulded rope pattern: from this rise imitation loop handles modeled in low relief, the tops of the loops comming to the rim of the bowl. [drawing] | |
| 13735 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Grey (basic diorite?) Straight-sided. RC150. [drawing] |
| 13739 | 31-16-407 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Grey stone (basic diorite?) . [Type] RC229. [drawing] | |
| 13741 | 31-16-376 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Grey stone (basic diorite?). JN.26 new. [drawing] | |
| 13747 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Grey stone (basic diorite?) Broken & 1/3 missing. One hole is pierced through the middle of the bottom and two close together near the rim: cf. 13746. [drawing] |
| 13753 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. In antiquity broken in half and mended with 3 rivets (rivet-holes very large) The base not clearly defined. JN14 new. [drawing] |
| 13754 | 31-16-453 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. The edges much chipped. ?[Type] RC20a. Jnu. [drawing] |
| 13755 | 31-16-451 | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl. White limestone (restored from fragments). Jnu. Type X (RC20a) [drawing] |
| 13756 | 31-16-434 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone (restored from fragments). JN19. Type XV ? RC22b [drawing] | |
| 13757 | 31-16-435 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone (restored from fragments, but imperfect). JN19. Type XV ? RC22b. [drawing] | |
| 13764 | 31-17-334 | (none) | (none) | Pottery Fragment. Part of a bowl. Smother-kiln fired to deep black all through, the outer surface burnished: on part of the rim, impressed concentric circles. [Type] CCCVI. =JN34 new. Not in catalog. | |
| 13765B | 31-16-370 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Diorite, grey. JN34. ? Cf RC36 [drawing] | |
| 13766 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Diorite, dark grey. JN25. Type XIX (RC15a) [drawing] |
| 13768 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. JN24. [Type] XIX (RC15a) [drawing] |
| 13769 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Diorite, dark grey. JN4? [drawing] |