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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 8346 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Veined white calcite. A small chip out of the rim. Type LXXI. |
| 8347 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Dark greenish steatite. The edge ornamented by nicking in a chevron pattern. Type IX. |
| 8350 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl with straight low sides and ridge inside. Type TO/__ |
| 8352 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White calcite, the surface almost wholly perished. Carinated rim. Type __ |
| 8360A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A and B] Copper bowls. Two, [A] one inside the other. [B]The outer one broken, the inner intact. [Type] III |
| 8360B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A and B] Copper bowls. Two, [A] one inside the other. [B]The outer one broken, the inner intact. [Type] III |
| 8365 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper bowl. Oval, with sunk base, now all warped out of shape, cracked and broken. |
| 8372 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White calcite. Irregularly made and apparently cut down from a larger pot. Straight-sided [drawing] Type XXI. |
| 8373 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Strongly veined calcite(?) Very badly broken, and the surface much decayed. Type XXV. |
| 8379 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper bowl. [drawing] Type XIV. |
| 8386 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. Unusual breast-cup shape with 4 small horizontal lugs from rim vertically pierced. Type CXIX 43. |
| 8401 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Calcite. Yellowish. Veined. Stone type LXXIX. |
| 8402 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Calcite. White. Part of rim missing. Stone type LIII |
| 8407 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl or mortar? Limestone. White. Very thick in section. Stone type LXXX. |
| 8412 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl Copper [Type] 102 |
| 8413 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl Limestone White Broken and mended Stone type _ |
| 8435 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl Limestone White Poor condition Part of rim missing Stone type XL |
| 8444 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper bowl Broken and fragmentary Metal vase type 3 |
| 8449B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A] Copper cullender. [B] Copper bath shaped bowl. Cullender found inside copper bowl and corroded with it. Part of rim of cullender missing and base cracked. Copper bowl broken and fragmentary. [drawing] Cullender same type as U.7869. [Type] LXIII |
| 8452 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl Limestone Greyish 2 lug handles, one on either side of bowl 015 below rim - each lug handle perforated twice Stone type LXXXII |
| 8453 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl Limestone Greyish Small portion of rim missing Stone type X |
| 8455 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl Calcite Greyish Broken, rivetted and stuck up with bitumen in antiquity. Found broken into 6 pieces and mended 3 rivets in antiquity Stone type XXII |
| 8456 | (none) | (none) | B17170 | Bowl Limestone Greyish Broken in 2 pieces and mended Stone type XLVI | |
| 8463 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl Calcite White Stone type LI |
| 8482 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper bowl. Bath shaped. LXIII. |