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) |
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![]() | 15339 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay pedestal bowl. Red clay, drab surface (broken). Type CCCXVII. |
![]() | 15341 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay pedestal bowl. Red clay with drab surface (broken). Type CCCXLVII. |
15340 | 31-17-369 | (none) | (none) | Clay pedestal bowl. Light red clay with cream slip, inside the bowl. (broken). Type CCCXLII | |
13715B | (none) | 1930,1213.302 | (none) | Clay pans. Low straight sides. 3 broad ribbon loop handles which bend down inwards and are attached to the base of the bowl inside about halfway between the center and the circumference. A = 2 handles broken and missing. Red clay with whitish slip. B Complete except for a chip : greenish clay. Not in Cat of Vol. IV | |
14449 | (none) | 1930,1213.344 | (none) | Clay funnel? A saucer of drab clay with a large hole in the bottom & two smaller holes close together high up on one side: it is a clay version of a fairly common stone type. [drawing] | |
15543 | (none) | 1930,1213.191 | (none) | Clay cup. TO painted ware. Black on green. Type CCCXLV. 25. [drawing] | |
![]() | 546 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay cup. Reddish-drab clay. Wheelmade, broken. Type XLI. |
15509 | (none) | 1930,1213.218 | (none) | Clay cup. TO painted ware. Dark brown on pinkish drab. ( in fragments) Type CCCXLV. 23. [drawing] | |
15505 | (none) | 1930,1213.196 | (none) | Clay cup. To painted ware. Chocolate brown on pinkish drab. (red clay) (in fragments, & very full of salt). Type CCCXLV. 25. [drawing] | |
15551 | (none) | 1930,1213.211 | (none) | Clay cup. TO painted ware. Black on warm buff (incomplete) Type CCCXLV. 25. [drawing] | |
15540 | (none) | 1930,1213.222 | (none) | Clay cup. TO painted ware. Black on strong green. Type TO. CIII. 26. [drawing] | |
15392 | (none) | 1930,1213.197 | (none) | Clay cup. TO painted ware. Black on greenish drab. Type CCCXLV. 26. [drawing] | |
15534 | (none) | 1930,1213.216 | (none) | Clay cup. TO painted ware. Black on greenish drab. Type CCCXLV. 25. [drawing] | |
15550 | (none) | 1930,1213.210 | (none) | Clay cup. TO painted ware. Black on green: (incomplete) Type CCCXLV. 25. [drawing] | |
15510 | (none) | 1930,1213.199 | (none) | Clay cup. TO painted ware. Black on green (very thin walled) (in fragments( Type CCCXLV. 23. [drawing] | |
15561 | (none) | 1930,1213.219 | (none) | Clay cup. To painted ware. Black on cream. Type CCCXLV. 23. [drawing] | |
15374 | 31-17-312 | 1930,1213.188 | (none) | Clay cup. TO painted ware. Black bands on greenish drab clay. (restored from fragments) Type CCCXLV. aU23. | |
15594 | (none) | 1930,1213.186 | (none) | Clay cup. TO painted ware (in fragments) Black paint on light drab. Type CCCXLV. Broken. [drawing] | |
![]() | 1037 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay Bowl. wheelmade. With inverted sides and flat base. Greenish clay, |
6805 | 31-16-169 | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. Type XC in album ? Persian, =P.37 | |
![]() | 6260 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. Type CCXXIX, =RC.229, =L |
![]() | 19983 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. TO. Painted ware. Black on light drab clay. In fragments. aLL 21 [Annotated] [drawing] |
7513 | 30-12-191 | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. Reddish. Type CCLXXVI. =P.24 Found with types CCXLI and CCXX and Fibula U7501. Cf U7511 and U7512. Grave not in tab. anal. [Tabular analysis?] | |
![]() | 923 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. Reddish drab clay. Wheelmade, broken. Type LXXVII, but the contour is straiter, the foot is not so distinct. =P.28 |
6285 | (none) | 1935,0113.411 | (none) | Clay bowl. Red. Type CXCVI. =L. |