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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 16693 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Baked clay bowl. Egg shell ware. Broken but complete. Type _. = 2a new P. [drawing] |
| 15446 | (none) | 1930,1213.679 | (none) | Baked clay bowl. Decorated below neck with impressed circles, and a thin band left in relief running vertically with the vertical axis of the pot. Type CCCLXXXIII. New (P)14. |
| 896 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Alabaster lion. Fragment of showing greater part of body and bit of mane, of a recumbent lion carved in the round: apparently from the rim of a very large bowl. |
| 279 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Alabaster fragment of bowl. Beginning of second line of royal inscription. Placed in IN/No. 1. |
| 416 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Alabaster bowl. Perfectly plain: rim chipped. Otherwise complete. Part of a foundation deposit (?) Type |
| 64 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Alabaster bowl. In very bad condition, stained and whole surface eroded, much of rim broken away. [drawing 1:2] |
| 911 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Alabaster bowl. Fragment of. |
| 899 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Alabaster bowl. Fragment of in crystaline alabaster. |
| 138 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Alabaster bowl. Fr of With remains of inscription in square frame. [drawing] thus |
| 892 | (none) | 1923,1110.64 | (none) | Alabaster bowl, fragment of highly colored veined alabaster. About 1/3 of bowl, composed of 4 fragments, stuck together. Type RC.25. |
| 2740 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Alabaster bowl fragment. From shallow bowl, scalloped on outside. |
| 890 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Alabaster bowl fragment of with remains of projecting solid handle on one side. Remains of inscription. |
| 888 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Alabaster bowl fragment of in veined and colored alabaster. |
| 903 | (none) | (none) | B14973 | Alabaster bowl 3 fragments. In fine pink-veined alabaster. | |
| 310 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Agate bowl. Intact. Lathe-turned, the center lathe-hole filled up with a strong peg. Plain rib moulding on outside. Very beautiful stone. |
| (none) | (none) | 1930,1213.578 | (none) | (none) | |
| (none) | (none) | 1930,1213.575 | (none) | (none) | |
| (none) | (none) | 1930,1213.584 | (none) | (none) | |
| (none) | (none) | 1930,1213.587 | (none) | (none) | |
| (none) | (none) | 1930,1213.194 | (none) | (none) | |
| (none) | 31-43-507 | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | 30-12-153 | (none) | (none) | (none) | |
| (none) | 31-16-174 | (none) | (none) | (none) | |
| (none) | 31-16-168 | (none) | (none) | (none) | |
| (none) | 31-16-177 | (none) | (none) | (none) |