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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 6829 | (none) | 1927,0527.305 | (none) | Bowl. Faience. Glazed. Mouth broken. Type CCLV. Drawn as fig. See text Gig-per-ku Room B.12 P.29 |
| 6219 | (none) | 1927,0527.63 | (none) | Clay bowl. Dark drab. Misshapen. Type CXCVI approximately. =L. |
| 6644 | (none) | 1927,0527.74 | (none) | Silver situla. Fragment. With silver handle hinged onto the rim. E. |
| 6640 | (none) | 1927,0527.75 | (none) | Bowl. Base silver. Misshapen. E. |
| (none) | (none) | 1927,0527.94 | (none) | (none) |
| 9364 | (none) | 1928,1009.185 | (none) | Silver bowl with long trough spout, with body finely fluted and engraved, the base outside has an eight petalled flower engraved upon it. Found inside two copper bowls. From the pre-historic graves? (Illustrated Harmsworth Universal History. part 5. facing p.481 : in color.) [card seems to be a replacement] |
| 7964 | (none) | 1928,1009.323 | (none) | Copper bowl. Practically hemispherical. Fairly good condition. | |
| (none) | (none) | 1928,1009.324 | (none) | (none) | |
| 9011 | (none) | 1928,1009.325 | (none) | Copper bowl. Metal vase type III. [drawing] | |
| (none) | (none) | 1928,1009.327 | (none) | (none) | |
| 7840 | (none) | 1928,1009.421 | (none) | Stone bowl. Calcite. Inscribed A-gir-gal. Type 39 new. HC.43 [drawing] |
| 8143 | (none) | 1928,1009.424 | (none) | Bowl. Limestone. White. Complete. Broken & mended. Stone type XII. |
| 8249 | (none) | 1928,1009.425 | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. The outer face much decayed. Broken and imperfect. Type LX |
| 8273 | (none) | 1928,1009.426 | (none) | Bowl. Limestone. Indented rim. Stone type LX. |
| 8336 | (none) | 1928,1009.458 | (none) | Spoon-bowl(?) A white steatite(?) Almost flat but very slightly concave. On one side and more prominently convex on the other. Broken at the spring of the handle. [drawing] |
| (none) | (none) | 1928,1009.460 | (none) | (none) | |
| 8243 | (none) | 1928,1009.493 | (none) | Stone bowl. One end flat, sides starting parallel and then converging in a curve to a lip spout. [drawing] Perhaps a copy of a wooden original. Type LXXVII |
| 8216 | (none) | 1928,1009.507 | (none) | Stone bowl of strongly veined calcite. Type LXXI. |
| 7937 | (none) | 1928,1009.510 | (none) | Stone bowl. Calcite. White. Veined. Broken and mended. Part of rim missing. Type LVIII. |
| 8608 | (none) | 1928,1009.512 | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. Type LXXV. |
| 8296 | (none) | 1928,1009.513 | (none) | Bowl. Limestone. White. Indented rim. Stone type XLIII. |
| 8319 | (none) | 1928,1009.514 | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone, plain. Type XXIII. |
| 8780 | (none) | 1928,1009.515 | (none) | Bowl. Calcite. White. Broken and mended. Small portion of rim missing. Stone type LX. |
| 8218 | (none) | 1928,1009.516 | (none) | Stone bowl of translucent whtie calcite? or quartzite found broken and mended. Type LXVII. |
| 7647 | (none) | 1928,1009.517 | (none) | Stone bowl. Calcite. White. Blackened by fire. Type X stone. |