This is a process of creating a ceramic vessel, where clay is placed on a wheel and the wheel is rotated to form a vessel by applying pressure with one's hands. 

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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)
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]
13762 (none) 1930,1213.577 (none) Clay vase. miniature Type ? [drawing] not in cat. vol. IV
14045 (none) 1935,0113.801 (none) Clay offering table. Badly smashed. Bottom missing. 4 bands of decoration round upper portion, 2 middle bands have incised criss-cross decoration. Top and bottom band consists of incised triangles.
14410 (none) 1935,0113.391 (none) Clay pot. Light red clay. Rather rough. Type CCCX.
14475 (none) 1930,1213.314 (none) Clay pot. Drab clay. Type CCCXIX. Not in catalog.
14490 (none) 1930,1213.278 (none) Clay vase spouted of drab clay. [drawing] Type JN 149 new. Not in cat. vol. IV
14492 (none) 1930,1213.277 (none) Clay pot. Spouted. Of light red clay. [drawing] Type JN145. Not in cat. vol. IV.
(none) (none) 1930,1213.587 (none) (none)
14937 (none) 1935,0113.393 (none) Clay saucer. Drab clay. Type CCCXXI =JN5 new. Not in catalog.
15336 (none) 1930,0012.13, 1930,1213.292 (none) Clay cup. Drab clay. Type CCCXLVI.
15364 (none) 1930,0012.13, 1930,1213.290 (none) Clay goblet. Green clay. (flattened at the mouth in firing) Type CCCXLVIII.
15523 (none) 1930,1213.316 (none) Clay cup. TO painted ware. Type CCCXLV. 23. [drawing]
15560 (none) 1930,1213.220 (none) Clay cup. TO painted ware. Black bands on light red clay. Fragments only not making a complete vessel: all base missing. Type CCCXLV 25.
17063 (none) 1931,1010.552 (none) Bowl. Baked clay. Egg shell ware. Light drab. Type [CCXXXVI crossed out] see field notes. Draw. Type 4 P. (TA)
17083 (none) 1935,0113.396 (none) Vase baked clay. Greenish drab. Type 1)LXVII. =195P
17303 (none) 1935,0113.395 (none) Vase. Baked clay. Glazed. Two handles. Originally green. Type 1D LXXI. =225P.
17994 (none) 1932,1008.285 (none) Glazed saucer. Persian. Type 755. =42P. [drawing 1:2]
18605 (none) 1933,1013.246 (none) Clay vase, painted. Characteristic Jemdet Nast 3 color design. Type new JN.32.
18606 (none) 1933,1013.249a (none) Clay vase, painted with red wash, burnished. Type JN.j.12. Very badly smashed.
18722 (none) 1933,1013.244 (none) Clay pot, painted. Drab clay with design in red on the shoulder. Type JN sj.8 but with 2 spouts side by side. [Note on back card reads Beads missing. JNG 15 - lozenge shaped carnelian.]
19198 (none) 1935,0112.95 (none) Bronze harpoon. Arrow type 4a.
19298 (none) 1935,0112.15 (none) Vase. Black clay finely burnished. Type JN 13. Imitation of stone type JN 26.
19985 (none) 1935,0112.103 (none) Clay vase. Smooth greenish-drab clay. Imitation of stone type. JN 26 (57) = JN 66
19986 (none) 1935,0112.13 (none) Clay vase. Painted red all over. JN 47
501 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Pinkish-drab clay. Wheelmade. Type XXIII.

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