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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15124 | 31-16-363 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Greenish grey basic diorite? Type IX(RC19a) [drawing 2:5] | |
| 15114 | 31-16-364 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Greenish grey basic diorite? Type XI. RC22c. JN8. | |
| 15113 | 31-16-367 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Greenish grey basic diorite? Type XV. ? Drawing. JN22. | |
 | 14071 | 31-16-379 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Greenish steatite. Bell type. Broken & riveted in antiquity. Type LXVI. |
| 14494A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Greensih grey. Basic diorite(?) Type. LI. |
| 13735 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Grey (basic diorite?) Straight-sided. RC150. [drawing] |
| 15165 | (none) | 1935,0113.447 | (none) | Stone bowl. Grey basic diorite. Type XCII (RC22c) [drawing 2:5] |
| 14499A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Grey basic diorite. Type XVIII. |
| 13564 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl. Grey calcite. Badly smashed. Type see Field Note. LIX. |
| 14297 | 31-16-424 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Grey calcite. Type XII. [drawing] | |
| 15152 | 31-16-408 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Grey limestone. Cut down. Type: see Field Note. [Type] XXII | |
| 19043 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Grey limestone. Type 19a. roughly made. |
| 19137 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Grey limestone. Type 20a. |
| 996B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl. Grey Steatite Broken. Hemispherical with Projecting spout square in section and pierced by a hole below the rim. Rime decorated with diagnonal stripes: Round sides, belwo rim, a band of compass-drawn incised circles. |
| 15470 | 31-16-365 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Grey steatite. Decorated round rim with concentric circles. [drawing 2:5] | |
| 18754 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Grey steatite. Half of. Showing the process of manufacture. The outside is roughly shaped: the inside has been gouged out with a chisel blade 6mm wide. It has never been finished and all the tool marks are preserved. It would appear that the inside was to be finished belfore work on the outside was resumed. |
| 19202 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Grey steatite. Type 37b. |
| 19241 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Grey steatite; straight-sided; inscribed; piece missing from rim. |
| 13747 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Grey stone (basic diorite?) Broken & 1/3 missing. One hole is pierced through the middle of the bottom and two close together near the rim: cf. 13746. [drawing] |
| 13739 | 31-16-407 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Grey stone (basic diorite?) . [Type] RC229. [drawing] | |
| 13741 | 31-16-376 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Grey stone (basic diorite?). JN.26 new. [drawing] | |
| 19016 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Grey stone. Type 16a. |
| 13714 | 31-16-371 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Half of: Rather roughly worked in dark grey steatite. Type rough rimless variant of type RC112. Not in field notes. [drawing] | |
| 14914 | 31-16-361 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Light grey basic diorite (?) Hemispherical, with slight base cap. JN14 =JN.5 new. | |
| 19177 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Limestone. Type 18 |