Lids
This category includes pieces separate from the vessel, used to block the mouth.
This category includes pieces separate from the vessel, used to block the mouth. It is usually of a conical shape with a knob on the top. The height is less than the diameter.
This category matches Woolley's published ceramic vessel typology no. 247. It does not match any category in his metal and stone typology.
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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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 1134 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay jar-stopper. Fragment with impression of archaic cylinder seal. Erect animals and men. (the sealing defaced by impression of thumb-mark) [drawing 1:1] |
| 1133 | (none) | 1924,0920.119 | (none) | Clay jar-stopper. Fragment with impression of archaic cylinder seal. Erect animals and men. [drawing 1:1] |
| 3189 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay pot lid. Pinkish drab ware with incised lines. (not p) [drawing 1:1] |
| 2717 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay stopper [stopper crossed out and replaced with ear-stand?] Fine quality baked clay. Fragmentary. [drawing 1:1] |
| 13716 | 31-16-517 | (none) | (none) | Fragment of Obsidian lid. Ground down to a thinness of one millimetre, originally a dish about d. 80, of greying obisidian. [drawing] |
| 136 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Frs of Ivory box-lid. Fitting together. Flat ivory, plain above, below a projecting rim all round. |
| 2906 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Glazed pot lid. White fist painted with black and yellow small handle-knob and two holes in line of diameter. |
| 8576 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Gold cap from a pin-head? |
| 13051D | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group of objects. [A] (1) Painted potsherds. [B] (2) Animal bones . [C] (3) Fragment of limestone. [D] (4) Clay stopper for vase. Unbaked. |
| 12776D | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group of objects: (A) Small fragment of obsidian vase. (B) [.1-.6] 3 long clay bugles, imitation of beads cut from core of shell. (C) Obsidian chip. (D) Jar - stopper of mud and lime, circular, one face flat, one convex, with rough incisions on flat face, perhaps accidental. (E) [.1-.2] Fragment of terracotta figure perhaps the head of a dragon (?). [Drawing] (F) Clay object, flat, with incised holes. (G) [.1-.6] Five fragments of clay jar sealings with seal impressions : all have rows of animals in wooded or rocky country. (H) [.1-.26] Pottery fragments 1) Plum red and back decoration on light ground: 2 examples. 2) Red decoration on light ground and other fragments. Not in catalog of Vol. IV. |
| 12778C.2 | (none) | 1928,1010.784 | (none) | Group of objects: from PG/NW level; found between levels -760 and -800 below the planoconvex brick pavement (A) Clay animal figurine. (B) [.1-.6] Fragment of long clay beads imitating shell. (C) [.1-.9] A number of clay jar-sealing with seal impressions, all of one type, palmette enclosed (imperfect) [reference to drawing]. (see over [Annotated] Legrain 480 (D) An oval clay object. [Annotated] Legrain 481. (see over) [Drawing of impression] (E) Tubular ball (?) bead. (F) Copper needle. (G) [.1-.13] Various examples of pottery. [H] (also animal bones). -- The design on D and C is the same [drawing of design]. | |
| 7903 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Ivory box lid. Circular. Convex above with line border and central rosette, 12-petalled: rabetted below to fit circular box. |
| 485 | (none) | (none) | B15278 | Ivory box-lid. Circular, rebated below to fit onto the top of a vase (U.476?): the upper surface decorated with concentric circles and radiating lines lightly incised, the lower similarly decorated. |
| 17689A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Lid of jar. Al Obaid ware. [drawing 1:1] |
| 6606 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Lid of vase. Clay, baked. Decorated on top with concentric circles. |
| 7801 | (none) | 1928,1009.11 | (none) | Phoenician Inscription Ivory On a lid (of box) Dedication to Astart. HC.39 | |
| 6433 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pot cover. Glazed clay. Knob handle and two holes on on either side of it at edge. [drawing 1:1] |
| 8254 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pot lid. Baked clay. Pinkish with knob handle. [drawing] not to scale. |
| 7560 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Reclining bull. Mottled marble. Head missing. Bull rests on outside of hollowed cylinder and may be part of a decorative handle. [drawing 1:1] |
| 6113 | (none) | (none) | B16224 | Round stone lid. Green. Chipped. E. [drawing] |
| 1682 | (none) | 1924,0920.327 | (none) | Saucer. Drab clay; roughly wheelmade. B. Type XCVII. =P.30 | |
| 1683 | (none) | 1924,0920.328 | (none) | Saucer. Greenish clay; wheelmade. B. Type XCVII. =P.30 | |
| 15017A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal impressions. 2 pieces. Linear pattern. |
| 302 | (none) | (none) | B14956 | Steatite box-lid. fr. of; Circular: the top carved with a rosette of which the petals were originally inlaid; two holes are pierced through the lid from side to side for strings. [Drawing 1:1} | |
| 2825 | (none) | 1935,0113.375 | (none) | Stone pot lid. Dark blue stone, somewhat broken. [drawing 1:2] |
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