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Beveled rim bowls (traditionally called Glockentöpfe) are small, undecorated, mass-produced clay bowls most common in the 4th millennium BC during the Late Chalcolithic period. They constitute roughly three quarters of all ceramics found in Uruk culture sites, are therefore a unique and reliable indicator of the presence of the Uruk culture in ...
A Phoenician silver-gilt bowl from the Walters Art Museum showing a hunting scene, originally discovered in the Tomba Barberini. Phoenician metal bowls are approximately 90 decorated bowls made in the 7th–8th centuries BCE in bronze, silver and gold (often in the form of electrum), found since the mid-19th century in the Eastern Mediterranean and Iraq. [1]
Decorated terra sigillata bowl from Gaul (Metz in France) Unusually ambitious Samian ware flask from Southern Gaul around 100 AD. Heracles is killing Laomedon. Pottery was produced in enormous quantities in ancient Rome, mostly for utilitarian purposes. It is found all over the former Roman Empire and beyond.
Mandaic-language incantation bowl. Incantation bowls are a form of protective magic found in what is now Iraq and Iran.Produced in the Middle East during late antiquity from the sixth to eighth centuries, particularly in Upper Mesopotamia and Syria, [1] the bowls were usually inscribed in a spiral, beginning from the rim and moving toward the center.
Bowls is a variant of the boules games (Italian: bocce), which, in their general form, are of ancient or prehistoric origin. Ancient Greek variants are recorded that involved throwing light objects (such as flat stones, coins, or later also stone balls) as far as possible. The aspect of tossing the balls to approach a target as closely as ...
Modern bowls can be made of ceramic, metal, wood, plastic, and other materials. Bowls have been made for thousands of years. Very early bowls have been found in China, Ancient Greece, Crete and in certain Native American cultures. In Ancient Greek pottery, small bowls, including phiales and pateras, and bowl-shaped cups called kylices were used
Silver bowl from the St Ninian's Isle Treasure. There are two known silver bowls, both smaller than most bronze examples at about 15 centimetres (6 in) across. These are the now lost Witham bowl, found in Lincolnshire in the 19th century and now known only from good quality drawings, and a bowl from the St Ninian's Isle Treasure. The Witham ...
Patera from Georgia, likely depicting Fortuna (2nd century AD, [1] Georgian National Museum). In the material culture of classical antiquity, a patera (Latin pronunciation:) or phiale (Ancient Greek: φιάλη [pʰi.á.lɛː]) [2] is a shallow ceramic or metal libation bowl.