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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 19879 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone cup. Diorite. JN 2 |
| 19941 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone cup. Diorite. JN 16 |
| 19536 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone cup. Dark steatite. Type JN 20 |
| 18683 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone cup. Black steatite. [Type] 28. [drawing] |
| 18600 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone cup. Basic diorite. [Type] 9. [drawing] |
| 18591 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone cup. Basic diorite. Type 5. [drawing] |
| 19503 | 35-1-206 | (none) | (none) | Stone cup. Basic diorite. JN 11 | |
| 18443 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone cap. Miniature. Diorite. [drawing 1:1] |
| 19589 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl [crossed out] cup. Basic diorite(?). JN (10, but with base ring) |
| 3305 | (none) | 1927,1003.113 | (none) | Silver cup. Straight-sided cup of silver alloyed with copper and ornamented. Type sketch 1:1. in Cat. In text: kassite period(16) [drawing 1:1] | |
| 10863 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Cup or small tumbler Straight-sided with flattened base Type XLIX |
| 18502C | (none) | (none) | (none) | Shells. [A] 1) A cowrie, large, cut to form of cup. [B] 2) Conch shell cut as a lamp. [C] 3) Shell . [drawing] |
| 18502A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Shells. [A] 1) A cowrie, large, cut to form of cup. [B] 2) Conch shell cut as a lamp. [C] 3) Shell . [drawing] |
| 3217A | 29-174-2 | (none) | (none) | Pottery vases. With slihgtly curved cheeks and small base: buff ware. (B) Smaller and slightly different from type. Type CCI, =RC.14a, =L, =P.74 | |
| 3217B | (none) | 1927,1003.131 | (none) | Pottery vases. With slihgtly curved cheeks and small base: buff ware. (B) Smaller and slightly different from type. Type CCI, =RC.14a, =L, =P.74 | |
| 3218 | (none) | 1927,1003.121 | (none) | Pottery vase. With small base, body gradually opening out to lip. Type CCII, =P.69 | |
| 3216 | 29-174-1 | (none) | (none) | Pottery vase. Small slightly concave-sided vase of buff ware. Type CC, =P.70 | |
| 3268A | (none) | 1927,1003.125 | (none) | Pottery tumblers. Poor quality, of pink ware, very rough. Type CCIV in album, (not p) | |
| 3088A | (none) | 1927,1003.124 | (none) | Pottery tumblers. Of buffware with straight sides. Poor quality pot, badly made. Type CXCI (not p) (B) Shallower. With U.3055, U.3074 fromt solitary grave. | |
| 2897 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pottery tumbler. Buffware of plain cone shape: fragmentary. Type CLXVI. =P.65 |
| 2929 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pottery cup. Bowl of buff ware. Type CLXXXI, =p.60. |
| 14412 | 31-16-219 | (none) | (none) | Paint. The lower part of a plain clay cup containing plum-colored paint in powder form. Not in catalog. | |
| 13709 | (none) | 1928,1010.880 | (none) | Offering-table. Drab clay. Fragments of with incised decoration. The design is remarkable. Round the base, incised chevrons and cross-hatched triangles. The stem has two long vertical slots on each side of which are the door-symbols: on one side is a tree flanked by the dotted triangle of the female organ: on the other side is a tree on one side of which is a house(?) either built on piles or with the lower part of its walls of channelled masonry. Field note says much smashed. No drawing. [drawing] | |
| 12774R | (none) | 1929,1017.713 | (none) | Objects. (A) Bead, long, clay imitation of bead cut from shell core. (B) Clay bugle bead. (C) Shell bugle bead. (D) Clay spindle whorl. (E) Copper needle (broken). (F) Clay nail. (G) Fragment of clay sickle. (H) Penannular ring of shell. [I not assigned in group] (J) [J.1-.11] Chips, flint and obsidian, including one flint piercer. (K) [K.1-.2] Fragments of clay animal figurines. (L) Animal tooth. (M) Miniature pot of reddish clay, broken. (N) Pottery fragments. [N.1-.4] 4 small bits black design on white, characteristic TO [Tel Obaid]; [N.5-.6] 2 pieces, black band on drab, coarse ware; [N.7-.10] 4 pieces red bands on drab [N.11] 1 piece plain red wash(?); [N.12-.13] 2 pieces, design in red on light ground; [N.14-.15] 2 pieces, design in red and black on light ground : rows of triangles and bands; [N.16-.18] 3 pieces with transverse bands of erased slip decoration, light red on deeper red body. (O) [O.1] Cylindrical vase of light drab clay and [O.2] fragment of a second similar. (P) Clay jar sealing (?) with scratched design. (Q) Clay jar sealing with impression of seal cylinder : subject, bulls and square shrines. (R) Clay cup, reddish ware, wheelmade, normal type, broken and mended. (S) Clay jar sealing, fragment, with design of rows of animals. | |
| 10454 | (none) | 1928,1010.6 | (none) | Gold Spouted vessel. On a small solid base, oval, an oval bowl like a flattened half-egg: the sides fluted with herring-bone and double zigzag pattern engraved round rim and above base. From low on one side rises a tubular spout, curved and growing thinner to the tip. (Bent in). Found with gold and silver vessels at the far end of box [drawing] photo 1042 |
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