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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 20021 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. JN 3 |
| 20022 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Pinkish white limestone. JN 5a (a hole in the base has been stopped with bitumen) |
| 20023 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Diorite. JN 5b |
| 20032 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Diorite. JN 13 |
| 20033 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Diorite. JN |
| 20034 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Diorite. JN 13 - base has been made separately and fixed on. |
| 20054 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl of green glazed earthen ware. Type 75b = new 50 (P) [drawing] |
| 20057 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Black ware. JN 41 |
| 20058 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone vase. White limestone. Miniature. JN 28 |
| 20059 | 35-1-186 | (none) | (none) | Stone vase. White calcite. Miniature. JN 28 | |
| 20060 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone vase. Alabaster. Miniature. JN 28 |
| 20074 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Lead bowl. Much distorted. |
| 20090 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White Limestone [crossed out] White calcite. Type |
| 17912I | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group from one burial. (A) [A and J] 2 Gold frontlets. (B) [B and K]2 tubular gold bracelets (C) Gold earring, spirally coiled with lunate ends (D) [D and L] 2 silver bracelets, single wire (E) Cylinder seal, lapis lazuli, introductory scene, 2 standing figures and seated deity; crescent above god; (F) Necklace of gold balls between carnelian bugles, flat lentoid chalcedones, carnelian barrels, carnelian ball, agate lentoid, green chalcedone bugles. (G) Axe, type XVIII, [H-I] Copper objects [These are drawn on the field catalog card, but not assigned subdivisions by Woolley][drawing] |
| 17917M | (none) | (none) | (none) | Burial group. (A) 3 twisted gold hair-ribbons [A, I and O]. (B) 2 gold frontlets [B and P]. (C) Pair of gold hair-rings, spirally coiled, lunated ends [C and Q]. (D) Tubular gold 4 spiral finger ring. (E) Necklace of gold flat diamonds, gold double conoids, carnelian lentoids, bugles and barrels and diamonds, agate barrels. (F) Necklace of gold balls, agate barrels, flat lentoid agate, carnelian bugles, etc. (G) 4 silver bracelets [G and R-T]. (H) Remains of 2 copper bases, from above grave. [H and U] [J-N are metal vessels with drawings but no descriptive text][drawing] |
| 17930E | (none) | (none) | (none) | Burial group. (A) Fragments of twisted hair ribbon. (B) One gold spirally coiled hair ring, hollow lunated ends. (C) Strings of beads on copper wire, alternate steatite and shell painted with gold, terminating in boss of steatite inlaid with shell panels alternately painted yellow. (D) Necklace of gold diamonds, gold ribbed balls, flat lentoid agates, barrel, carnelians, diamond carnelians, and lentoid steatite, etc. Carnelian balls. (E) Copper bowl. |
| 18447B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group: [A] Iron dagger hilt. [B] Bronze situla. [C] Iron bangle. [D] Iron bangle, end broken. [E-F] 2 copper bracelet. [G] Iron bracelet. [H-J] 3 iron [rings] and [K-M] 3 copper rings. [N-S] 6 copper [arrowheads] and [drawing 1:1] [T-U] 2 iron arrowheads thus: [reference to drawing]. [drawing 1:1] [V] Beads: a number of yellow paste double conoids, lapis tubes and balls, carnelian tubes and balls, beads of green stone, marble, blue paste, a carnelian bead section tubular and a glazed bead. Found in [drawing] [W] one clay coffin. |
| 18459A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Unknown |
| 18903E | 35-1-437 | (none) | (none) | Copper group: (A) Chisel. Type 2a (B) Chisel. Type 4a. (C) Saw (the tip missing) (D) Awl (broken). (E) Bowl, hemispherical; cracked and slightly crushed. | |
| 19410B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 Stone bowls. White calcite. Type JN 27 |
| 19411B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 Stone bowls. White calcite. Type JN 27 |
| 19521B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 White [Crossed out] stone bowls. White calcite. Type JN 26 |
| 19793A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. JN 50 |
| 10457B | (none) | (none) | B17298 | Silver Bowls 4 [A-D] Oxidised together 3 of oval type with little knob handles on the long sides, one hemispherical. Type __ Photo __ | |
| 10457C | (none) | (none) | B17299 | Silver Bowls 4 [A-D] Oxidised together 3 of oval type with little knob handles on the long sides, one hemispherical. Type __ Photo __ |