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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8625 | (none) | (none) | B17451 | Copper bowl. Oval type. Originally provided with a long handle attached to the rim at the middle of the longer sides: this is missing. It was probably of thin (silver?) wire. | |
 | 8058 | (none) | (none) | B17453 | Copper bowl. Oval or boat-shaped. The shape is probably exaggerated by the accidental bending inwards of the long sides. In poor condition and part of the base missing. LXIII. |
| 8161 | (none) | (none) | B17454 | Copper bowl. Almost hemispherical, with flat ring base: distorted & one side broken. | |
| 1662 | (none) | (none) | B17456 | Copper bowl. Fragments. | |
| 10033 | (none) | (none) | B17529 | Silver Bowl Oval Resembling U.10031 badly smashed up |
| (none) | (none) | (none) | B17530 | Unknown | |
| 10163 | (none) | (none) | B17531 | Copper Bowl Type LXXXIV | |
| 9662 | (none) | (none) | B17532 | Copper Bowl. Hemispherical. Type III | |
| (none) | (none) | (none) | B17533 | Unknown | |
| (none) | (none) | (none) | B17534 | Unknown | |
| (none) | (none) | (none) | B17535 | Unknown | |
| 9128 | (none) | (none) | B17538 | Copper vase. Type XLVI. | |
| 10761 | (none) | (none) | B17540 | Copper Bucket With copper ring handle XXIII New 46 | |
| 8631A | (none) | (none) | B17541 | Copper vessels. [A-D] A set of 4 spouted bowls, one inside the other. Type 11. Over these has been inverted a copper strainer [E] Type _. The last much broken. | |
| 8631C | (none) | (none) | B17541 | Copper vessels. [A-D] A set of 4 spouted bowls, one inside the other. Type 11. Over these has been inverted a copper strainer [E] Type _. The last much broken. | |
| 8631D | (none) | (none) | B17541 | Copper vessels. [A-D] A set of 4 spouted bowls, one inside the other. Type 11. Over these has been inverted a copper strainer [E] Type _. The last much broken. | |
| 8631B | (none) | (none) | B17542 | Copper vessels. [A-D] A set of 4 spouted bowls, one inside the other. Type 11. Over these has been inverted a copper strainer [E] Type _. The last much broken. |
| 8597 | (none) | (none) | B17543 | Copper bowl Straight-sided with long trough spout Type 11 | |
| 7973 | (none) | (none) | B17547 | Copper bowl or cauldron. In very bad condition. Type LVI. |
| (none) | (none) | (none) | B17549 | (none) | |
| 11211 | (none) | (none) | B17599 | Beads. (7). 1 Flattened steatite double conoid-grey. 1 carnelian double conoid. 1 black steatite bead with incised markings; shaped like a truncated cone. 2 carnelian ring beads. 1 gold ring bead. 1 grey steatite bead square in section - tubular. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 10850 | (none) | (none) | B17693 | Gold Bowl Oval (slightly distorted and flattened) of heavy and fairly pure gold: the sides fluted: engraved round the rim a double line of herring-bone pattern: the flutings end in points giving a chevron effect: the same 2 elements are repeated at the bottom against the raised oval base on which is engraved a 12-petalled rosette on a background of concentric elipses. At the middle of the sides level with rim. 2 handles each of 2 vertical gold tubes meant to take wire. | |
| 11703 | (none) | (none) | B8547b | Copper Bowl. Oval in pretty good condition. Corroded on to it, in the inside, are a copper lamp and a hemispherical copper bowl. |