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)
14457A 31-16-442 (none) (none) Stone bowl. Calcite. Yellowish. Highly polished. Badly smashed but probably complete. Type.
19838 35-1-535 (none) (none) Stone bowl. Coarse limestone. JN 2
19713 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Coarse limestone. JN 24
19767 35-1-174 (none) (none) Stone bowl. Coarse limestone. JN 53
19928 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Coarse limestone. JN 5A
19885A (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Coarse limestone. JN 6B. Destroyed. This no. is now given to lamp from JNG 210 see next card
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.
19956 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Coarse limestone. Type 3
19709 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Coarse limestone. Type 6B
19892 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Coarse limestone. Type JN 1
19894 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Coarse limestone. Type JN 1
19893 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Coarse limestone. Type JN 21
19712 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Coarse limestone. Type JN 6b
19710 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Coarse limestone. Type JN 9
18638 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Coarse pitted limestone. Broken and imperfect. Straight side.
19786 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Coarse white limestone. JN 11
19839 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Coarse white limestone. JN 2
19837 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Coarse white limestone. JN 3
19841 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Coarse white limestone. JN 41
19452 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Coarse white limestone. Type JN 3
19399 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Coarse white limestone. Type JN 33
19561 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Coarse white limestone. Type JN 8
18604 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Dark blackish-grey fine-grained igneous stone. [Type] 13. [drawing]
18559 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Dark diorite. [Type] 26. [drawing]
14453A (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Dark green Indian(?) stone. Type XII. [drawing 1:5]

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