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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15573 | (none) | 1930,1213.00 | (none) | Clay bowl. TO painted ware ( in fragments) Black on cream. Type CCCLXXVI. 21. [drawing] | |
 | 15528 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. Painted ware. Pinkish drab with design very roughly done in a fugitive red paint now mostly flaked off. Type CCCLXXIII. 22. [drawing] |
| 14987 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. Painted TO ware. Broken but complete. Type as TO 254. as U.26? [as U.26? not legible.] |
| 15371 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. On ring base of TO ware: greenish drab clay with band of black paint round rim. The interior is deeply combed, pres. for the bruising of grain ( a piece missing) Much distorted in firing. Type CCCLXI. |
| 15195 | (none) | 1930,1213.310 | (none) | Clay bowl. Light drab. Baked. Egg-shell ware. Decorated with band of very shallow and short oblique lines running round vase about half way down. Type: CCXXXVI. 3bP [P.3b?] |
| 14955 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. Light drab ware. Flattened hemispherical. One hole through the bottom and 4 holes in two groups of 2 each close together on one side. JN65. [drawing] |
| 15572 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. Light drab clay. Handmade, very rough. Type CCCXCI |
| 15363 | (none) | 1930,1213.201 | (none) | Clay bowl. Handmade: rough light reddish-drab clay with black paint; a band round the rim & interior pendants, hemispherical. Type aU.20 [drawing] | |
| 15194 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. Greenish blue(?) glazed. 2 handles. Type: LXVII. |
| 6810 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay Bowl. Glazed. White. blue glazedround rim. Type LXXXII |
| 15565 | (none) | 1930,1213.193 | (none) | Clay bowl. Fragments. TO painted ware. Black on greenish drab. Type CCCLXV. 3a. [drawing] | |
| 15564 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. Fragments. TO painted ware. Black on drab. Type CCCLXXVL. aU.21. [drawing] |
| 15610 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. Fine light drab ware. Thin walled. Type CCCXCIII. |
| 14949 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. Drab clay. Type CCCXXII. =JN19. Not in catalog. |
| 15400 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. Brown clay. Black on surface, very lightly fired & very flakey. Type CCCLXV. 3. |
| 15197 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. Blue-green glazed. 2 handles. Type: LXVII. 217P. |
| 7012 | (none) | (none) | B16243 | Clay bowl. Light drab. Type CCXXXVI. =P.3b | |
| 559A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl-fragments. Wheelmade, reddish clay. (below) Large example of Type XXII ornamented with three ridges, .015 apart, below the neck. | |
| 18627 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl, painted, fragments of: parts of a bowl or cup of greenish drab ware with black decoration, design of roughly hatched circles thus: [reference to drawing] not complete. [drawing] |
| 15517 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl, or platter. TO painted ware. Black on light drab. Type CCCLXVI. 4. [drawing] |
| 18805 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl, fragment of. Of very highly burnished ware, black face inside and out, brown body. [drawing] 269 |
| 8350 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl with straight low sides and ridge inside. Type TO/__ |
| 15593 | 31-17-291 | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl or platter. TO painted ware. Black paint, poor & powdery. on light drab. Type CCCLXV. 3. [drawing] | |
| 6571 | (none) | 1927,0527.289 | (none) | Clay bowl fragmentary. Glazed. Light drab and trace of blue on outside. | |
| 15608 | 31-17-316 | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl (fragments: imperfect) TO painted ware. Brownish black on drab. Type CCCXCI(?). 19. [drawing] |