Cups
This category includes vessels where the height is less than the diameter, and can fit into one's hand.
A cup is a vessel that is used for carrying and serving drinks and it fits into one's hands. By using Anna Shepard's criteria, a cup is described as an open form where the height is less than the diameter. The angle of the sides from the base are between 30 and 80 degrees. It sometimes has a footed base.
This category matches Woolley's published ceramic vessel typology Nos. 8-13. It matches the metal vessel typology Nos. 36; 40-41 and stone vessel typology No. 30.
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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) |
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6277 | (none) | 1927,0527.292 | (none) | (none) | |
6332 | (none) | (none) | B16208, B16208 | Alabaster cup with inscription. Fragment. To the god A-Si(g) (who pours/gives water) | |
6427 | (none) | (none) | B16609 | Clay vase. Light drab. Type CLXXXVIII (not p) | |
6545 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Light drab. Type CCXLVII. =P.71. | |
6549 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. Light drab. Type CCXLVIII. In album Neo-Babylonian. =P.64. | |
6595B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Unknown | |
6688 | (none) | 1927,0527.288 | (none) | Clay vase. Light drab. Type CCLI. In album. =P.67. | |
6694 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Light drab. Misshapen. Type L =P.71. Should this be a Larsa type? If so please supply drawing. Not in RC or L series yet. Original type drawing attached. in album Kassite | |
6702 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Fragment of Obsidian Cup. Inscription broken. ?, his seed?, maybe?., the goods of the sons?, raise?, from the days?, the treasure house? 3rd Ur Dynasty. H.C. B. | |
6815 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Drab. Type CCI variant. (More bellied) (Type 201=RC.4a) =P.74 Post Kurigalzu. | |
682 | (none) | (none) | B15383 | Clay cup. Type LIV =P76b [typology]. Grave not P series. | |
6835 | (none) | 1927,0527.287 | (none) | Clay vase. Drab. Type CCLVa in album = P.75. Neo-Babylonian. | |
6836 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Drab. Type CCLVa variant (more squat) in album; =P.75. Neo-Babylonian. | |
6996 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cup. Miniature. Limestone? Gray. Shaped like a finger stall. [drawing] | |
8536 | (none) | 1928,1010.480 | (none) | Clay offering table. Reddish clay. With incised ornament on stem. Broken but virtually complete. | |
884A | (none) | (none) | B14969 | Alabaster cup, fragments of, 5 pieces, reduced to 3, of straight-sided cup or tumbler in poor quality white alabaster. Type RC.13 | |
884B | (none) | (none) | B14969 | Alabaster cup, fragments of, 5 pieces, reduced to 3, of straight-sided cup or tumbler in poor quality white alabaster. Type RC.13 | |
884C | (none) | (none) | B14969 | Alabaster cup, fragments of, 5 pieces, reduced to 3, of straight-sided cup or tumbler in poor quality white alabaster. Type RC.13 | |
885 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Alabaster cup fragments of straight-sided cup or tumbler in pinkish alabaster. | |
8929 | (none) | 1928,1009.326 | (none) | Copper cup. On short stem with splayed foot. In poor condition, the bottom fallen out and much of the foot broken. | |
9118 | (none) | (none) | B17010 | Copper tumbler Type XXVI. | |
97 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay cup. Rough reddish drab clay, hole pierced through base. Type XXIV. [drawing 1:1] [Annotated] Cards used Vol VI | |
9910 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Tumbler Broken and distorted but sound [drawing] | |
998 | (none) | (none) | B15393 | Clay Vase. Very white paste, probably once glazed, but all surface gone. Cf P.75 [drawing] |
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