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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 816 | (none) | 1923,1110.66 | (none) | Stone bowl. of greenish loose-grained stone like lava. Almost straight sides, flat base. Broken but complete. |
| 8161 | (none) | (none) | B17454 | Copper bowl. Almost hemispherical, with flat ring base: distorted & one side broken. | |
| 8163 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone, good quality. Found in fragments. Type __ |
| 817 | (none) | (none) | B14981 | Stone bowl. of greenish loose-grained stone like lava. Broken in half and some fragments missing. Sides practically straight, base flat. |
| 818 | (none) | 1923,1110.62 | (none) | Stone bowl of grey fine-grained slatey stone. Broken, but virtually complete. Sides straight, base flat. |
| 8185 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver object. So distorted that shape is unrecognizable: possibly a bowl. Found on the shoulder of the dead person, sticking to the fragments of skull bone. |
| 819 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Fragment of: of Light blue-grey mottled stone, loose grained. |
| 8190 | (none) | (none) | B17036 | Stone bowl. [drawing] Type XII, but with rounded base. Photo 841 | |
| 8196 | (none) | (none) | B17158 | Stone bowl. White limestone. Type LX | |
| 8197 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Type 73 (new) [Struck through: LXXVIII] |
| 820 | (none) | (none) | B14979 | Stone bowl of coarse whitish limestone, almost of marble. | |
| 8204 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. Hemispherical with nicked edge. Type XII. |
| 8206 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. Broken. Type LX. |
| 8207 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. Broken. Type XII. |
| 821 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl of rose-pink mottled stone (marble?) |
| 8216 | (none) | 1928,1009.507 | (none) | Stone bowl of strongly veined calcite. Type LXXI. |
| 8218 | (none) | 1928,1009.516 | (none) | Stone bowl of translucent whtie calcite? or quartzite found broken and mended. Type LXVII. |
| 8219 | (none) | (none) | B17045 | Stone bowl. White limestone. Type LX. photo___ | |
| 822 | (none) | 1923,1110.61 | (none) | Stone bowl of coarse grey limestone, chip out of rim. |
| 8220 | (none) | 1928,1009.518 | (none) | Stone bowl. Whtie limestone. Type XIX. |
| 8225 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone with nicked edge. Type XXV. |
| 8237 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. Type _. |
| 8238 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. Type __ |
| 8240 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Dark steatite. Well polished. Type LIX. |
| 8242 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Fine quality white limestone. Type LXXV. |