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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 6415 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. Dark drab. Type CLXXIX variant. |
| 7041 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. Dark drab. Type CCLXIX. Larsa? |
| 6219 | (none) | 1927,0527.63 | (none) | Clay bowl. Dark drab. Misshapen. Type CXCVI approximately. =L. |
| 15 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. Creamy drab clay, wheelmade, with natural surface slightly worked up. Type VI. |
| 6026 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. Burial urn. Round base. Shouldered. Type CCXXVIII. =P9. |
| 7084 | (none) | 1935,0113.389 | (none) | Clay bowl. Black. Finely burnished. Type. | |
| 6075 | (none) | 1927,0527.290 | (none) | Clay bowl. Black painted. Rounded base. Type CCX. Vol VII. | |
| 6038 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. Bellied. Flat ring shaped base grooved below mouth. Drab. Type CCLXXIV. |
| 13041 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. Baked. Light drab clay. Very thin egg shell ware. Broken and part missing. Type 3 P. |
| 13026 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. Baked. Fine egg shell ware. Hamispherical. =P.4 |
| 13037 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. Baked. Burnished. |
| 14455 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. ? Cf. 270 [drawing] |
| 15189 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. Yellowish drab. Baked. Type: CCCLVIII. =2P. |
| 14960 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. Very roughly made of coarse lgiht red clay. Masses of examples of this type occur between -8.5m and -10.4m, especially in the lower part: they were being made in the kiln found at -9.1m. Not in catalog. |
| 15553 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. TO painted ware. Very wide black border on greenish drab. Type CCCLXXVII. 8. |
| 15533 | (none) | 1930,1213.195 | (none) | Clay bowl. TO painted ware. Rough & handmade. Black paint on drab. Type CCCLXV. 3a. [drawing] | |
| 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] | |
| 15396 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. TO painted ware. Drab clay with black border & in the interior two cross-hatched triangles. Type CCCLXV. 3a. |
| 15557 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. TO painted ware. Chocolate brown on pink. Type CCCLXV. 3a. [drawing] |
| 15554 | 31-17-292 | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. TO painted ware. Chocolate brown on light red clay, handmade. Type CCCLXV. 3a. | |
| 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. | |
| 15546 | (none) | 1930,1213.208 | (none) | Clay bowl. TO painted ware. Black border, body of red clay with creamy slip. Type CCCLXXVIII. 6. | |
| 15535 | 31-17-313 | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. TO painted ware. Black bands on greenish buff. Type CCCLXXVI. 21. [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 |
| 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] |