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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 889 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Marble bowl fragment of in coarse white marble. |
| 890 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Alabaster bowl fragment of with remains of projecting solid handle on one side. Remains of inscription. |
| 8901 | (none) | 1928,1010.379 | (none) | Silver bowl. A good deal distorted. {Drawing] [Type] III | |
| 8903 | (none) | (none) | B17404 | Copper bowl. Oval and once provided with a (wire?) handle: no base ring or flattening. Type LXIII. | |
| 8906 | (none) | 1928,1010.386 | (none) | Copper bowl. Strainer and spouted bowl all fused together by oxidation. Types XCIX. [drawing] | |
| 891 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Marble bowl fragment of very roughly worked and the inside chiseled out instead of being bored or ground- perhaps unfinished. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 8973 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. White calcite. Saucer type. [Original catalog card replaced, likely not Woolley: Stone bowl, white calcite, Type 57, ht 0.05m, d. 0.018m PG 433 (B.4107)] |
| 8977 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. White limestone. Type ? |
| 8987 | (none) | (none) | B17440 | Copper bowl Hemispherical Type III |
| 899 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Alabaster bowl. Fragment of in crystaline alabaster. |
| 8994 | (none) | 1928,1010.387 | (none) | Copper bowl Hemispherical [Type] III | |
| 9011 | (none) | 1928,1009.325 | (none) | Copper bowl. Metal vase type III. [drawing] | |
| 9020 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl Blue green steatite Concentric circle decoration round rim part of rim missing Stone Type XCIII |
| 903 | (none) | (none) | B14973 | Alabaster bowl 3 fragments. In fine pink-veined alabaster. | |
| 9067 | (none) | (none) | B17408 | Copper bowl Metal vase III [Stone type 18 has been crossed out on catalog card] na | |
| 9075 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper bowl Metal type vase 3. |
| 9090 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper bowl Metal vase type [Type] LXXXIV |
| 911 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Alabaster bowl. Fragment of. |
| 9114 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl Grey Steatite Type XIX |
| 9119 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper bowl Hemispherical Type III |
| 912 | (none) | (none) | (none) | White marble bowl. Fragment of Roughly cut, and surface a good deal decayed. |
| 9128 | (none) | (none) | B17538 | Copper vase. Type XLVI. | |
| 914 | (none) | 1923,1110.59 | (none) | Stone vase. Fragment of straight-sided deep bowl of granite. |