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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 5 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Very coarse grey steatite (?) edges badly chipped. |
| 15 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. Creamy drab clay, wheelmade, with natural surface slightly worked up. Type VI. |
| 16 | (none) | 1923,1110.82 | (none) | Clay bowl. Pinkish drab clay with creamy engobbage. Wheelmade. Rounded base. Hole drilled through side. Type V. | |
| 35 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Alabaster, veined. [drawing 1:2] |
| 36 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Alabaster, coarse, broken and mended but imperfect. Coarse-grained stone, stained yellow inside. Type 20 new. [drawing] |
| 58A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Bronze bowls, 2. Much crushed and broken, and completely oxidized,. Roughly hemispherical. |
| 58B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Bronze bowls, 2. Much crushed and broken, and completely oxidized,. Roughly hemispherical. |
| 64 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Alabaster bowl. In very bad condition, stained and whole surface eroded, much of rim broken away. [drawing 1:2] |
| 88 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay pot. Pinkish drab clay, wheelmade. Type XI. |
| 113 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bronze bowl. Godrooned: exact type of Deir Huzah bowls. [Annotated] Photo? |
| 123 | (none) | (none) | B15280 | Bronze bowl. Upper part on one side broken, but virtually all frs. there and fitting together. Metal in good condition. Near the rim on the outside is a sun and moon pattern. [drawing] |
| 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. |
| 138 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Alabaster bowl. Fr of With remains of inscription in square frame. [drawing] thus |
| 150 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. Pinkish drab ware, wheelmade, surface inclined to creamy white in parts. Type XXII |
| 157 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bronze situla (?) But seemingly solid, perhaps owing to oxidation only: with frs. of chain. |
| 182 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay saucer. Reddish ware, roughly wheelmade. Type XXXI.=L.19 |
| 184 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tumbler. Miniature, of coarse reddish clay. Type XXV= RC6 |
| 210 | (none) | 1923,1110.43 | (none) | Stone bowl Fragment. (joined up from 2) of a bowl of fine-grained black stone: on the outside carved in low relief, long-horned oxen: of one the whole body and one horn remaining, head missing: of the other, only a fragment of the hind-quarters: the tail of the second animal is short and curled and it may well be other than an ox. |
| 232 | (none) | 1923,1110.17 | (none) | Stone vase. 3 fragments (2 of which joined together) of limestone bowl. On the outside, carved in relief, a seated goddess with 2 children and a standing god, and 5 figures of adorants. Also an inscription. [annotated] Drawn: see photo. |
| 262 | (none) | (none) | B14948, B14948 | Fragment of stone bowl. Dedication to a god by Mu-da-da... Son of Sarrum-... on behalf of Ishme-Dagan. Copied and transliterated. Placed in IN/No. 1. |
| 268 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Fragment of large alabaster bowl. Last line of a dedication. |
| 270 | (none) | (none) | B14940, B14940 | Stone fragment of dish. Beginning of last two lines of a dedication. Joined to U.249. Placed in IN/No. 1 |
| 271 | (none) | (none) | B14941, B14941 | Fragment of stone dish. Dedication by a priest of Nannar, "thy son" |
| 272 | (none) | 1923,1110.16 | (none) | Fragment of alabaster bowl. Ends of lines of a rudely scratched inscription. Placed in IN/No. 1. |