A Jar is a type of vessel that has an approximately cylindrical body and is used for cooking or storage purposes.  By using Anna Shepard's criteria, a jar is a closed form where the height is greater than the diameter.  The angle of the sides from the base are between 45 and 90 degrees and it has an apparent neck.  A Jar may or may not have handles.  If It has a spout, it is listed under Spouted Jar.  

This category matches Woolley's published ceramic typology Nos. 43-48; 54-176; 186-203; 217-222; 250-253.  It matches the metal vessel typology Nos. 52-79 and Stone vessel typology Nos. 60-92.  

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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)
10526 (none) (none) B17154 Stone Vase soapstone? Dark grey Part of rim missing [drawing] type CXII
10529 (none) 1928,1010.463 (none) Stone Vase Calcite White Part of rim missing [drawing] Type CVIII
10581 (none) (none) (none) Stone Vase White calcite Type__
106 (none) (none) B15379 Clay vase. of red clay. Wheelmade, with hematitic engobbage. Fine ware. Rim partly missing. Type X. [Annotated] Phil
10711 (none) 1928,1010.459 (none) Stone Vase Calcite White Type LXXXIV
10736 (none) 1928,1010.385 (none) Copper Vase Oval Calabash Type with low rectangular handles shaped thus [drawing] in middle of long sides against lid Type__
10752H (none) (none) (none) Head Ornament. (A) Gold ribbon. (B) Wreath of carnelian and lapis lazuli beads with gold mulberry leaf pendants. (C) [.1-.2]Pair of large gold lunate earrings (D) Remains of silver head ornament with inlaid rosette finials. (E) [E and K] 2 silver pins with lapis ball heads. (F) 4 strings of double conoid beads, gold, lapis and silver, for order of stringing cf. Field Note. (G) [G and L] 2 pairs of cockle shells containing black and green paint and some blue paint. (H) A miniature baked clay vase. (I) [I and M] 2 silver earrings. 2 1/2 coils. (J) Necklace: 3 strings of gold and lapis double conoids.
10760 (none) (none) (none) Spouted Vase Copper Trough spout Type XXXIV New 98
10768 (none) (none) (none) Stone Vase Spill vase type Calcite White
10783 (none) (none) (none) Vase White calcite Type LXXVIII
10784 (none) (none) (none) Vase White calcite Type LXIII
10785 (none) (none) (none) Group of copper vases Corroded together Including an oval bowl, and a hemispherical bowl Type LXIII
108 (none) (none) (none) Fr. of alabaster vase. =RC..91a. [drawing]
10816D (none) (none) (none) Tomb Group. (A) Beads from neck: gold double conoids, carnelian rings, lapis double conoids forming top string. Middle string: lapis double conoids. Bottom string: silver double conoids. (B) Fragments of decayed silver earrings. (C) Silver pin with lapis ball head. Type V. (D) decayed miniature clay vase, pinkish drab friable surface. (E) [E and G] Pair of cockle shells, blue and greenish paint mixed. (F) Five or six shell rings.
10824I 87-28-22 (none) (none) Tomb Group A. A large number of gold and lapis double conoids; order not ascertained owing to extreme confusion in soil. B. Silver pin with lapis ball head. Type V. C. [C and G] Two copper pins with lapis ball heads. Second broken and decayed. Type V. D. Gold finger ring, plain gold wire on top and bottom, seven spiral gold wires between. E. [E and H] Two silver earrings; 2 1/2 coils each. F. Cockle shells containing brown, blue, and green paint. [I-K Ceramic Vessels not recorded on card, but recorded in UE II L Silver Armlet not recorded on card or in volume, but BM has recorded this object as belonging to this group.]
10824J (none) 1928,1010.460 (none) Tomb Group A. A large number of gold and lapis double conoids; order not ascertained owing to extreme confusion in soil. B. Silver pin with lapis ball head. Type V. C. [C and G] Two copper pins with lapis ball heads. Second broken and decayed. Type V. D. Gold finger ring, plain gold wire on top and bottom, seven spiral gold wires between. E. [E and H] Two silver earrings; 2 1/2 coils each. F. Cockle shells containing brown, blue, and green paint. [I-K Ceramic Vessels not recorded on card, but recorded in UE II L Silver Armlet not recorded on card or in volume, but BM has recorded this object as belonging to this group.]
10824K (none) 1928,1010.462 (none) Tomb Group A. A large number of gold and lapis double conoids; order not ascertained owing to extreme confusion in soil. B. Silver pin with lapis ball head. Type V. C. [C and G] Two copper pins with lapis ball heads. Second broken and decayed. Type V. D. Gold finger ring, plain gold wire on top and bottom, seven spiral gold wires between. E. [E and H] Two silver earrings; 2 1/2 coils each. F. Cockle shells containing brown, blue, and green paint. [I-K Ceramic Vessels not recorded on card, but recorded in UE II L Silver Armlet not recorded on card or in volume, but BM has recorded this object as belonging to this group.]
10852 (none) 1928,1010.421 (none) Vase Greenish grey steatite [drawing] Type [struck out: "44 (new)"] to be drawn as 74 On the flat rim is incised a bulls leg
10853 (none) (none) (none) Stone Vase White calcite [drawing] Type 39
10854 (none) (none) B17104 Vase White calcite [drawing] Type I Much of the rim missing
10860 (none) (none) B17082B Silver Libation Jug Type XXIX [drawing] Corroded on to this are the tumbler U.10861 and a silver vessel, broken, of uncertain shape, probably a bowl.
10882 (none) (none) B17111 Stone vase White calcite (Intact) [drawing] 106 Variant New Type 76
10883 (none) (none) (none) Stone Vase White calcite (Intact) [drawing] [Type] 38
10884 (none) (none) (none) Stone Vase White calcite The surface poor, & part of the rim missing [Drawing] 1:1 [Type] I
10885 (none) (none) B17106 Stone Vase White calcite Part of the surface very badly decayed= parts of rim missing [drawing] [Type] I

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