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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 12671B | 30-12-259 | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 copper bowls and shell cut as a lamp all corroded together. Bowls broken and in poor condition. [Type] LXIII. |
| 7576B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 clay bowls. Glazed. Blue, bleached white. Found together one firmly wedged into the other. Portion of rim of B missing. Type CCLXXVI. =P.24 Kassite. |
| 7576A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 clay bowls. Glazed. Blue, bleached white. Found together one firmly waged into the other. Portion of rim of B missing. Type CCLXXVI. =P.24 Kassite. |
| 124B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 Bronze bowls. One inside the other, corroded together. [drawing] (A) In good condition. (B) Inside it one apparently thus: but base all gone. |
| 124A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 Bronze bowls. One inside the other, corroded together. [drawing] (A) In good condition. (B) Inside it one apparently thus: but base all gone. |
| 6667A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 bowls. Glazed. Blue. Type 237 =new type (p)126 B |
| 6667B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 bowls. Glazed. Blue. Type 237 =new type (p)126 B |
| 8360A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A and B] Copper bowls. Two, [A] one inside the other. [B]The outer one broken, the inner intact. [Type] III |
| 8360B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A and B] Copper bowls. Two, [A] one inside the other. [B]The outer one broken, the inner intact. [Type] III |
| 912 | (none) | (none) | (none) | White marble bowl. Fragment of Roughly cut, and surface a good deal decayed. |
| 8047 | (none) | (none) | B17163 | White limestone pot. With almost vertical carinated sides. Type LXX 8. | |
| 10973 | (none) | (none) | (none) | White limestone Bowl. Broken. |
| 11114 | (none) | (none) | B17157 | White Calcite Bowl. Part of rim missing. Type CXVIII. [drawing] | |
| 17235 | (none) | (none) | (none) | White calcite bowl. (fragment) Remains of the inscription of a king: (?-^dEN)ZU. HC. |
| 16529B | 52-30-66 | (none) | (none) | White calcite bowl. Fragment. Sin-igis(am) H.C. 30/III,2. |
| 16533 | 31-43-253, 31-43-253 | (none) | (none) | White calcite bowl, small fragment. Ur-(Nammu). H.C. 30/III, 5. |
| 6156 | (none) | (none) | B16211, B16211 | White alabaster bowl fragment. Incribed round belly. Part of ring base and belly alone remaining. Hole in in side close to ring base. Not required for Vols. IV, V, VI, VII. E. |
| 10972 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Veined white calcite Bowl.Type XXI. [drawing] |
| 10970 | (none) | 1935,0113.755 | (none) | Veined calcite Bowl. |
| 8103 | (none) | (none) | B17162 | Vase. Calcite. White. Veined. Part of rim missing. Type LXI. | |
| 18103 | 32-40-1 | (none) | (none) | Vase of glazed frit. The sides are decorated with petals in relief which were colored alternately yellow and black (?): the colors are bleached and the black (?) scarcely shows. [drawing] | |
| 6809 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Unknown |
| 18459A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Unknown |
| (none) | (none) | (none) | B17534 | Unknown | |
| (none) | (none) | (none) | B17407 | Unknown |