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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14908 | 31-17-11 | (none) | (none) | Fragments. Of a small bowl of blue glazed frit. Shape uncertain. | |
| 13571 | 31-17-173 | (none) | (none) | Copper Bowl. Hemispherical. | |
| 14296 | 31-17-174 | (none) | (none) | Copper bowl. Hemispherical. | |
| 13588 | 31-17-175 | (none) | (none) | Copper Bowl. Flattened hemispherical. Distorted. | |
| 14070B | 31-17-176b | (none) | (none) | Copper cullender. Normal type with long handle and adhering to it a copper bowl, hemispherical. | |
| (none) | 31-17-177 | (none) | (none) | Unknown | |
 | (none) | 31-17-179A | (none) | (none) | Unknown |
| 15629 | 31-17-284 | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. TO painted ware. Fragments: the centre missing. Plain black border on light drab ground. Type CCCLXV. [drawing] | |
| 15593 | 31-17-291 | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl or platter. TO painted ware. Black paint, poor & powdery. on light drab. Type CCCLXV. 3. [drawing] | |
| 15554 | 31-17-292 | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. TO painted ware. Chocolate brown on light red clay, handmade. Type CCCLXV. 3a. | |
| 15548 | 31-17-295 | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. TO painted ware. Black rim on green. The inside of the bowl is roughened with impressed combing, probably for the bruising of grain. Type CCCLXI. 7. | |
| 15374 | 31-17-312 | 1930,1213.188 | (none) | Clay cup. TO painted ware. Black bands on greenish drab clay. (restored from fragments) Type CCCXLV. aU23. | |
| 15535 | 31-17-313 | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. TO painted ware. Black bands on greenish buff. Type CCCLXXVI. 21. [drawing] | |
| 15608 | 31-17-316 | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl (fragments: imperfect) TO painted ware. Brownish black on drab. Type CCCXCI(?). 19. [drawing] | |
| 12771A | 31-17-319A | (none) | (none) | Objects. (A) Miniature white calcite bowl (the rim chipped) thus [reference to drawing] [Type RC12]. [drawing 1:1] (B) Shallow bowl of basic diorite (?). (C) Fragment of stone bowl (?) re-used and pierced with 3 holes: basic diorite (?). [drawing] (D) Miniature square box roughly made from light drab clay. (E) Miniature clay bowl. (F) Miniature goblet in light drab clay thus [reference to drawing]. [drawing 1:2] (G) Wheelmade pot of pinkish clay with pin-hole orifice at neck (neck broken off). [drawing] (H) Clay bead (?) or handle (?) rough cylinder longitudinally pierced. [U.12771I not assigned] (J) Oval pebble burnisher. Thin and flat. (K) Flint chip. (L) Flint saw. (M) Part of clay jar-sealing with indistinct traces of relief. (N) Clay jar sealing with rows of animals. [drawing 1:1] (O) Flint hoe (?) of T.O. type [Tel Obaid]. | |
| 12771B | 31-17-319F | (none) | (none) | Objects. (A) Miniature white calcite bowl (the rim chipped) thus [reference to drawing] [Type RC12]. [drawing 1:1] (B) Shallow bowl of basic diorite (?). (C) Fragment of stone bowl (?) re-used and pierced with 3 holes: basic diorite (?). [drawing] (D) Miniature square box roughly made from light drab clay. (E) Miniature clay bowl. (F) Miniature goblet in light drab clay thus [reference to drawing]. [drawing 1:2] (G) Wheelmade pot of pinkish clay with pin-hole orifice at neck (neck broken off). [drawing] (H) Clay bead (?) or handle (?) rough cylinder longitudinally pierced. [U.12771I not assigned] (J) Oval pebble burnisher. Thin and flat. (K) Flint chip. (L) Flint saw. (M) Part of clay jar-sealing with indistinct traces of relief. (N) Clay jar sealing with rows of animals. [drawing 1:1] (O) Flint hoe (?) of T.O. type [Tel Obaid]. | |
| 13764 | 31-17-334 | (none) | (none) | Pottery Fragment. Part of a bowl. Smother-kiln fired to deep black all through, the outer surface burnished: on part of the rim, impressed concentric circles. [Type] CCCVI. =JN34 new. Not in catalog. | |
| 15340 | 31-17-369 | (none) | (none) | Clay pedestal bowl. Light red clay with cream slip, inside the bowl. (broken). Type CCCXLII | |
| 16533 | 31-43-253, 31-43-253 | (none) | (none) | White calcite bowl, small fragment. Ur-(Nammu). H.C. 30/III, 5. |
| 16305 | 31-43-506 | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Bronze. [drawing] | |
| (none) | 31-43-507 | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| 17305 | 31-43-585 | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Baked clay. Light drab. Decorated with an incised tree(?) and a serpent (?) turned round the trunk(?). Type 1DLXII. |
| 16652 | 31-43-593 | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Baked clay. Egg shell ware. Type CCXXXVI. 3bP [P3b?] | |
| 16314 | 31-43-603 | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Glazed. Blue. Type DLVIII=43 bl? TA | |
| 18103 | 32-40-1 | (none) | (none) | Vase of glazed frit. The sides are decorated with petals in relief which were colored alternately yellow and black (?): the colors are bleached and the black (?) scarcely shows. [drawing] |