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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19520 | 35-1-551 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Fine white limestone. Type JN 17 | |
 | 19329 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Fine white limestone. Type JN 3. |
| 19559 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Fine White limestone. Type JN 35 |
| 19556 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Fine white limestone. Type JN 5B |
| 19360 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Fine white limestone. Type JN 8 |
| 19490 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Fine white limestone. Type JN 9 |
| 18595 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Fine-grained white limestone. [Type] 18. [drawing] |
| 7145 | (none) | (none) | B16226 | Stone bowl. Fragment of Dark steatite. On the outside, a row of scorpions carved in low relief. | |
| 819 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Fragment of: of Light blue-grey mottled stone, loose grained. |
| 6568 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Fragment. Mottled. B. |
| 8697 | (none) | 1928,1009.520 | (none) | Stone bowl. Green steatite. Type LXVI. |
| 6475 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Green. Perforated base. |
| 18478 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Greenish diorite. [Type] 8. [drawing] |
| 16723 | (none) | 1931,1010.105 | (none) | Stone Bowl. Greenish grey steatite or basic diorite(?). Trough spout. Decorated with concentric circles round upper portion of body. Type _. see field notes for drawing. |
| 996A | (none) | 1923,1110.51, 1923,1110.52, 1923,1110.53 | (none) | Stone bowl. grey steatite. Broken. Hemispherical with projecting spout square in section and pierced by a hole below the rim. Rim decorated with diagonal stripes, round sides, below rim, a band of compass-drawn incised circles. |
| 11853 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl. Grey steatite. Flattened hemispherical: round the outside, a line at the rim & below this concentric circles incised; broken & part missing. Broken in antiquity & mended with copper rivets which have been broken. |
| 12026 | 30-12-700 | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl. Grey steatite. Type XXIII. [drawing] | |
| 18680 | 33-35-105 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Grey steatite. [drawing] | |
| 1183 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. grey stone. Small (broken). [drawing 2:5] |
| 8031 | (none) | (none) | B17149 | Stone bowl. Hard dark grey stone. Well polished. Broken in antiquity and riveted: now found broken. Type LXII. |
| 12684 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Hemispherical. Traces of yellowish pigment within. Calcite. Type 36. [drawing] |
| 19691 | 35-1-531 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. JN | |
| 19791 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. JN 50 |
| 19798 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. JN 6b. |
| 19695 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. JN 8 |