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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 11789 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl. Veined calcite, surface decayed (broken) straight-sided. |
| 19425 | 35-1-526 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Veined calcite. Open shallow lines[?] Type | |
| 11815 | 30-12-77 | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl. Veined calcite. Straight-sided. |
| 11790 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl. Veined calcite. Surface decayed: broken, straight-sided. |
| 19433 | 35-1-583 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Veined calcite. Type 19 d (in fragments) Broken and rivetted in antiquity. | |
| 19460 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Veined calcite. Type 9 |
| 11817 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl. Veined calcite: surface decayed: shallow, straight-sided. |
| 19434 | 35-1-525 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Veined quartzite. Type 24 |
| 18688 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Very coarse basic diorite (?). [Type] 9. [drawing] |
| 5 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Very coarse grey steatite (?) edges badly chipped. |
| 18118 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Very dark steatite. Decorated on the outside with a procession of 5 bulls standing with the bodies in profile and the head turned outwards: bodies in fairly high relief, heads in the round. Over the back of each animal an ear of barley. Very fine work. A chip out of the (plain) rim and a larger break which has taken off the head of one of the balls = otherwise in perfect condition, straight-sided bowl. |
| 12021 | 30-12-96 | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl. White calcite (broken but complete) straight-sided. Type XVIII XIX XV [All Crossed out] XLV = 15 [drawing] | |
| 11943 | (none) | 1935,0113.758 | (none) | Stone Bowl. White calcite (broken) Flattened hemispherical-no base. Type LXVIII |
| 11758 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl. White calcite. |
| 11589 | (none) | 1929,1017.667 | (none) | Stone Bowl. White calcite. (broken but complete). Type XXV. |
| 12276 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl. White calcite. badly broken. |
| 12320 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl. White calcite. Badly broken. |
| 12267 | 30-12-99 | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl. White calcite. Badly broken. Broken & rivetted in antiquity. | |
| 11875 | 30-12-97 | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl. White calcite. Broken & in bad condition, the surface much decayed. Straight-sided. | |
| 11851 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl. White Calcite. Broken in antiquity & mended with lead rivets which have now given way. |
| 11818 | (none) | 1929,1017.668 | (none) | Stone Bowl. White calcite. Broken. Straight-sided. |
| 19883 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White calcite. JN 17 |
| 19828 | 35-1-179 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White calcite. JN 26 |
| 19836 | 35-1-176 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White calcite. JN 26 |
| 19887 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White calcite. JN 40 |