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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 18688 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Very coarse basic diorite (?). [Type] 9. [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] |
| 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. |
| 18952 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Limestone bowl. Type 16b. |
| 18955 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Basic diorite, chipped. Type 36. |
| 18969 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper cauldron. In pretty good condition. The bottom has been strengthened by adding a piece of copper on the outside, which is rivetted on. Type 49 |
| 18992 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White calcite. Type _. [drawing] RC.109. |
| 19016 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Grey stone. Type 16a. |
| 19017 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White calcite. Broken. |
| 19018A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group: (A) Copper bowl, Type III; (B)[B and F] Pair of small gold lunate earrings; (C) Copper bracelet; (D) Beads: carnelian tubes, square tubes, barrels and rectangular; gold balls; lapis date-shaped; large chalcedony flattened oval; (E) Fragment of gold ribbon from head. |
| 19023 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. Oblong, with a short handle at one end and fin-like ledges on each side; broken and a fragment missing. Type RC.102 |
| 19024 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. Broken. Broken and rivetted in antiquity. Type 41. |
| 19025 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper bowl. Type 3. |
| 19043 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Grey limestone. Type 19a. roughly made. |
| 19048 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Basic diorite. Type 51. |
| 19061 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. Type 43. |