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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 18676 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Black steatite. Too broken to measure or draw. Not in catalog. |
| 18677 | 33-35-110 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Translucent white calcite. Badly smashed and surface decayed. Much distorted. [Type] JN4. [drawing] |
| 18678 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Limestone. [Type] 23. [drawing] |
| 18679 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Limestone [Type] 27. [drawing] |
| 18680 | 33-35-105 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Grey steatite. [drawing] | |
| 18681 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Limestone. [Type] 27. [drawing] |
| 18682 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Diorite. [Type] 9. [drawing] |
| 18684 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Limestone. Imperfect. [Type] 8. [drawing] |
| 18685 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Limestone. Imperfect. [Type] 22. [drawing] |
| 18686 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Coarse limestone. Thick and roughly made: the rim cracked and warped completely out of shape. Flattened base and convex side. |
| 18687 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Dark steatite (?). In fragments, and incomplete. Sides nearly straight. |
| 18688 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Very coarse basic diorite (?). [Type] 9. [drawing] |
| 18689 | 33-35-106 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Limestone. [Type] 12. [drawing] | |
| 18694A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group: (A) Copper bowl, in good condition, plain. [drawing] (B) Iron dagger blade, long leaf-shaped. (C) Iron knife-blade, broken in 3 pieces. [drawing] (D) Copper ball pendant, (E) 3 hair (?) rings of copper wire [E, G-H]. (F) Beads: carnelian, lapis paste, marble, pebble, limestone, crystal, steatite, frit: rings, balls, date shaped, cylindrical and a few small shaped types, axes, flies, etc. |
| 18715 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Pink limestone. Broken and imperfect. [Type] 4. [drawing] |
| 18716 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Limestone. Imperfect. [Type] 16. [drawing] |
| 18731 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper (?) situla. [drawing] |
| 18754 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Grey steatite. Half of. Showing the process of manufacture. The outside is roughly shaped: the inside has been gouged out with a chisel blade 6mm wide. It has never been finished and all the tool marks are preserved. It would appear that the inside was to be finished belfore work on the outside was resumed. |
| 18805 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl, fragment of. Of very highly burnished ware, black face inside and out, brown body. [drawing] 269 |
| 18807 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl, fragment of. White calcite. With 10 columns of inscription damaged and incomplete. Inscription of Shul-gi (Dungi) |
| 18848 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Fragment of stone bowl. Steatite. Decorated in relief. [drawing 1:1] |
| 18860 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pottery fragment from rim of bowl. Of fine dary grey ware, with incised decoration of lines and concenytric circles, the incisions filled with white paste (circles compas drawn). [drawing 1:1] |
| 18865 | 35-1-40 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl, fragment of. Greenish steatite, with roughly engraved pattern on sides. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 18871 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bronze situla. Very good condition. |
| 18945 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White calcite. Broken and rivetted in antiquity, a small piece missing. Type 54. |