Beveled rim bowls 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 ancient Mesopotamia.
Beveled rim bowls began to appear in the Early Uruk period (c. 3900-3600 BC), were common in the Middle Uruk period (c. 3600-3400 BC) and the Late Uruk period (c. 3400-3200 BC). In the subsequent Jemdat Nasr period (c. 3200-3100 BC) their use declined along with a rise (starting in the Late Uruk period) in numbers of the ceramics called "tall flowerpots" (Grobe Blumentopfe), which were of similar faric as Beveled Rim Bowls but were wheel made, who's use is also still unclear. Beveled rim bowls remained in use in a few sites during the Early Dynastic I period (c. 3100-2900 BC).[1][2]
- ^ Goulder, Jill (2010). "Administrators' bread: an experiment-based re-assessment of the functional and cultural role of the Uruk bevel-rim bowl". Antiquity. 84 (324): 351–362. doi:10.1017/S0003598X0006662X.
- ^ [1]Jones, Jennifer E., "Standardized volumes? Mass-produced bowls of the Jemdet Nasr period from Abu Salabikh, Iraq", Paléorient, pp. 153-160, 1996