Cups
This category includes vessels where the height is less than the diameter, and can fit into one's hand.
A cup is a vessel that is used for carrying and serving drinks and it fits into one's hands. By using Anna Shepard's criteria, a cup is described as an open form where the height is less than the diameter. The angle of the sides from the base are between 30 and 80 degrees. It sometimes has a footed base.
This category matches Woolley's published ceramic vessel typology Nos. 8-13. It matches the metal vessel typology Nos. 36; 40-41 and stone vessel typology No. 30.
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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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | (none) | (none) | 1929,1017.713 | (none) | [Unknown] |
| 12051B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A] Copper Bowl. Hemispherical. Inside it a [B] shallow cup of white limestone with nicked rim. [Type] XLIII. |
| 11918A | (none) | 1929,1017.635 | (none) | [A-C] Copper Tumblers. 10 in all. 3 sets, nested, of 3 each, and of 4. | |
| 11918B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-C] Copper Tumblers. 10 in all. 3 sets, nested, of 3 each, and of 4. |
| 11918C | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-C] Copper Tumblers. 10 in all. 3 sets, nested, of 3 each, and of 4. |
| 10967 | (none) | 1928,1010.448 | (none) | White calcite cup. In fragments. |
| 3203B | (none) | 1927,1003.123 | (none) | Unknown | |
| 6595B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Unknown |
| (none) | (none) | (none) | B17444 | Unknown | |
| (none) | 98-9-152 | (none) | (none) | Unknown | |
| (none) | (none) | (none) | B16650.16 | unknown | |
| 15138 | (none) | 1930,1213.280 | (none) | Tumbler. Baked clay. With two small bosses round upper portion, also decorated with incised lines. The bosses were probably breasts and the tumbler may have been for use in the fertility cult. Both bosses are on one side of the vase only 100 apart. Type: CCCXXVI. | |
| 18116 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone mug. Mottled. Brown steatite with handle, and 2 holes below the rim as if to attach a lid. Intact. Heavy and not well-shaped. [drawing] |
| 20018 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone cup. White limestone. JN 39 |
| 19785 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone cup. White limestone. JN 3 |
| 19788 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone cup. White limestone. JN 3 |
| 19722 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone cup. White limestone. JN 19 |
| 20000 | (none) | 1935,0112.10 | (none) | Stone cup. White limestone. Decorated with figures of 2 cows and a calf in relief. The animal's heads are kept to the same plane as the bodies, not standing out as much; the drawing is naturalistic but the stone is poor and the decay of the surface has damaged the effect of the carving. |
| 18593 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone cup. Translucent white calcite with simple lip. [Type] 64. [drawing] |
| 19506 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone cup. Limestone. JN 11 |
| 18601 | 33-35-107 | (none) | (none) | Stone cup. Diorite. [Type] 40. [drawing] | |
| 19462 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone cup. diorite. Type JN 39 |
| 19848 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone cup. Diorite. JN 49 |
| 19749 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone cup. Diorite. JN 3 |
| 19789 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone cup. Diorite. JN 3 |
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