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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7933 | (none) | (none) | B17442 | Bowl. Copper. Type III. | |
 | 7937 | (none) | 1928,1009.510 | (none) | Stone bowl. Calcite. White. Veined. Broken and mended. Part of rim missing. Type LVIII. |
| 7938 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Calcite. White. Portion of rim missing. Stone type LVII. |
| 7943 | (none) | (none) | B17173 | Bowl. Limestone. White. Type LX stone | |
| 7947 | (none) | (none) | B17305 | Bowl. Limestone. White. Broken and part of base missing. Stone type XII. | |
| 7964 | (none) | 1928,1009.323 | (none) | Copper bowl. Practically hemispherical. Fairly good condition. | |
| 7965 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper bowl. In bad condition, distorted and the base all broken away. |
| 7973 | (none) | (none) | B17547 | Copper bowl or cauldron. In very bad condition. Type LVI. |
| 7982A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Two copper bowls. One with a well-marked ring base. Both damaged, corroded together, probably more or less hemispherical in shape. Type _. |
| 7994 | (none) | (none) | B17406 | Copper bowl. Oval, almost boat-shaped. In good condition but cracked. In it were several lumps of copper, apparently unformed. [type] LXIII. | |
| 8031 | (none) | (none) | B17149 | Stone bowl. Hard dark grey stone. Well polished. Broken in antiquity and riveted: now found broken. Type LXII. |
| 8032 | (none) | (none) | B17179 | Stone bowl White limestone, good quality An oval bowl with small horizontal lug handles Type LXIV | |
| 8038 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper bowl. Hemispherical. Part of one side chipped, but initially complete. [Type] III |
| 8045 | (none) | 1928,1010.376 | (none) | Copper cauldron. Straight-sided with the edge turned down to form a rim. The bottom is bent right up inside and has a large hole in it; part of one side broken away. Type 6. | |
| 8046 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper bowl Hemispherical In remarkably good condition. Found inside U8045 [Type] III |
| 8047 | (none) | (none) | B17163 | White limestone pot. With almost vertical carinated sides. Type LXX 8. | |
| 8051 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper bucket. The sides rise vertically and then slope inwards to an apparently straight rim in which is set a thin copper handle. The bottom plate is bent up and rivetted to the sides: the rim is formed by bending the top of the sides outwards and downwards and then rivetting along the edge. A good deal crushed and distorted, the handle broken. XCI. Type__ Photo__ |
| 8052 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Greenish stone (basic diorite?). Anciently broken & rivetted. Found in fragments. Type _. |
| 8057 | (none) | (none) | B17443 | Bowl. [CARD MISSING] | |
| 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. |
| 8059 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper bowl. Shallow, with umbilical centre and pseudo-godrooned sides: the centre has been crushed flat but seems to have been convex. A handle was attached to the rim but is missing. Part of one side broken. Type 86 (new types). |
| 8062 | (none) | (none) | B17247 | Stone bowl of poor quality white limestone. The surface much decayed. Type IX but with slight ring to base. | |
| 8063 | (none) | 1928,1009.519 | (none) | Stone bowl. Dark steatite. Finely polished. Type LXII. |
| 8068 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper bowl. Hemispherical. Distorted and part of base missing. [type] III |
| 8069 | (none) | (none) | B17176 | Stone bowl. White limestone. Hemispherical with flattened base. Cracked down one side. Type IX. |