Cups

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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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
10001	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gold Cup Oval calabash type, with rib at end On the side, inscr: Mes-Kalam-dug
10002	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gold Cup Hemispherical (nearly) with simple ridge round rim On one side inscription: Mes-Kalam-dug
10003	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gold Cup Oval, calabash type Decorated with fluting and engraved patterns round the edge and on the base. The handles are vertical knobs of lapis lazuli between gold plates, secured by rivets.
10013	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gold Drinking-cup (electrum?) apparently lathe spun: base formed by adding a small circular plate. Found with U.10,034
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
10863	(none)	(none)	(none)	Silver Cup or small tumbler Straight-sided with flattened base Type XLIX
10967	(none)	1928,1010.448	(none)	White calcite cup. In fragments.
11161	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gold Cup. Very thin soft gold, quite plain: slight foot-rim. [drawing]
11551	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gold Cup. Miniature. Base square & sides change to an oval (possibly this is accidental & the original form was circular above, but the cup has been slightly crushed). Type 16 variant.
11918A	(none)	1929,1017.635	(none)	[A-C] Copper Tumblers. 10 in all. 3 sets, nested, of 3 each, and of 4.
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.
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]
13751	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cup. Light pinkish-drab clay. Miniature. ?RC7a. Not in Catalog.
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.
15335	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cup TO-ware. Light drab with black bands. Virtually complete. Type CCCXLV. [drawing]
15336	(none)	1930,0012.13, 1930,1213.292	(none)	Clay cup. Drab clay. Type CCCXLVI.
15337	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cup. Drab clay (broken) Type CCCXLVI.
15343	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cup. Light drab clay. Rim much chipped. Type CCCXLV.
15344	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cup. Clay dead black in body, greenish drab on surface. (distorted in firing) Type CCCXLVI.
15345	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cup. Creamy drab ware. Type CCCXLVI.
15350	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cup. TO painted ware. Greenish drab body, black lines round rim & belly: broken but complete. Type CCCXLV. Presented from the London share to Mr. Reckitt, by order of the director.
15351	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cup. TO ware. Greenish ground with black bands round rim & belly: broken but complete. Type CCCXLV.
15352	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cup. TO ware, painted, greenish ground, black bands round irm & belly, broken but complete. Type CCCXLV.
15372	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cup. TO painted ware. Incomplete. On the sides design. Type CCCXLV. [drawing]
15373	(none)	1930,1213.200	(none)	Clay cup. TO painted ware (incomplete) On the side design. Type CCCXLV. [drawing]