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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 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 |
| 8249 | (none) | 1928,1009.425 | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. The outer face much decayed. Broken and imperfect. Type LX |
| 8252 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Limestone. White. Part of rim missing. Stone type LXVIII |
| 8253 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Silver. Broken and fragmentary. Handle of silver wire twisted through 2 holes on either side perforated immediately below rim. Warped. [drawing? Metal type _.] |
| 8257 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Limestone. White. 2 lug handles below rim on either side of vase (4 in all). [drawing] Stone type LXXXII, variant double instead of single lugs. |
| 8260 | (none) | (none) | B17171 | Bowl. Limestone. White. Indented rim. Small portion of rim missing. Stone type XLIII | |
| 8273 | (none) | 1928,1009.426 | (none) | Bowl. Limestone. Indented rim. Stone type LX. |
| 8275 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Calcite. White. Stone type LXXVIII. |
| 8277 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. One end flat, sides starting parallel and then converging in a curve to a lip spout. Type LXXVII cf. U.8223 |
| 8283 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Calcite. White. Broken & mended. Stone type XVII. |
| 8285 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Copper. Metal vase type 3 |
| 8293 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Limestone. White. Indented rim, part of which is missing. Stone type LX. |
| 8294 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Copper. Broken. Metal vase type 3. |
| 8296 | (none) | 1928,1009.513 | (none) | Bowl. Limestone. White. Indented rim. Stone type XLIII. |
| 8297 | (none) | (none) | B17178 | Bowl. Limestone. White. Stone type XII | |
| 8311 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone in good condition. Type XII. |
| 8316 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Two copper bowls. Fastened together by oxydation. both hemispherical: one in pretty good state, the other much bent. [Type] III. |
| 8319 | (none) | 1928,1009.514 | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone, plain. Type XXIII. |
| 8320 | (none) | (none) | B17306 | Stone bowl. White limestone, with nicked rim. (broken) Type IX. | |
| 8321 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. Type LX. |
| 8326 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone with nicked edge (broken and mended). Type XLIII. |
| 8328 | (none) | (none) | B17174 | Stone bowl. White limestone with nicked edge. Type XLIII. | |
| 8333 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver bowl. Oval, or boat-shaped with nearly vertical sides. In very bad condition, but waxed in situ and preserved. The measurements give a rather false idea of the vessel owing to its being crushed badly out of shape. The base measures 0075x0045 and is slightly sunk: the original width was probably c. 014 [Type] LXIII. |
| 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] |
| 8340 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Triangular shape with out-curved sides and a trough spout at the apex of the triangle. [drawing] Type LXXVIII. |