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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 15528 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. Painted ware. Pinkish drab with design very roughly done in a fugitive red paint now mostly flaked off. Type CCCLXXIII. 22. [drawing] |
| 15535 | 31-17-313 | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. TO painted ware. Black bands on greenish buff. Type CCCLXXVI. 21. [drawing] | |
| 15548 | 31-17-295 | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. TO painted ware. Black rim on green. The inside of the bowl is roughened with impressed combing, probably for the bruising of grain. Type CCCLXI. 7. | |
| 15553 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. TO painted ware. Very wide black border on greenish drab. Type CCCLXXVII. 8. |
| 15554 | 31-17-292 | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. TO painted ware. Chocolate brown on light red clay, handmade. Type CCCLXV. 3a. | |
| 15557 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. TO painted ware. Chocolate brown on pink. Type CCCLXV. 3a. [drawing] |
| 15564 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. Fragments. TO painted ware. Black on drab. Type CCCLXXVL. aU.21. [drawing] |
| 15572 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. Light drab clay. Handmade, very rough. Type CCCXCI |
| 15593 | 31-17-291 | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl or platter. TO painted ware. Black paint, poor & powdery. on light drab. Type CCCLXV. 3. [drawing] | |
| 15601 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. TO painted ware (imperfect) Plain black rim with 4 strips of pattern on drab ground. Type CCCLXV. 3a. [drawing] |
| 15608 | 31-17-316 | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl (fragments: imperfect) TO painted ware. Brownish black on drab. Type CCCXCI(?). 19. [drawing] | |
| 15610 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. Fine light drab ware. Thin walled. Type CCCXCIII. |
| 15629 | 31-17-284 | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. TO painted ware. Fragments: the centre missing. Plain black border on light drab ground. Type CCCLXV. [drawing] | |
| 15632 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. TO painted ware. 2 black lines round rim on drab ground. (broken & imperfect) Type [CCCXXVIII crossed out] 4, but with slight rim not strongly accentuated |
| 15766 | 31-16-437 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Calcite. Nicked. |
| 15767 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Dark green stone. |
| 15768 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Calcite. |
| 15770 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Yellowish clacite. |
| 15771 | 31-16-466 | (none) | (none) | Stone. Bowl. Yellowish calcite. [drawing] | |
| 15772 | 31-16-423 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Calcite. | |
| 15773 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White alabaster. Type: same as U.15101. CVIII. |
| 15774 | 31-16-400 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Yellowish calcite. | |
| 15794 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper bowl. Oval type with single rib at each end. |
| 16125 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper bowl. Flattened hemispherical. [drawing] |
| 16129 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Decorated bowl. Fragment. Dark green steatite. Rosette decoration. [drawing] |