Bowl

In Ancient Greek pottery, small bowls, including phiales and pateras, and bowl-shaped cups called kylices were used.

Phiales were used for libations and included a small dent in the center for the bowl to be held with a finger, although one source indicates that these were used to hold perfume rather than wine.

[1] In the 4th millennium BC, evidence exists that the Uruk culture of ancient Mesopotamia mass-produced beveled rim bowls of standardized sizes.

Lakh is a popular boiled porridge made with rolled millet flour pellets (araw/arraw) typically topped at serving with sweetened fermented milk.

In China, it is considered rude and unhygienic for a diner to use his or her own chopsticks to pick up food from communal bowls and plates when such utensils are present.

[4] In some cultures, the communal bowl has a set of social strictures, as evidenced by the Spanish idiom, "¿Cuándo hemos comido en el mismo plato?"

Chinese bowl with decoration of the "Three Friends"; 1426–1435 CE; porcelain with underglaze blue decoration; diameter: 30.2 cm; Cleveland Museum of Art (U.S.)
Self-identified bowl performing one of the most common functions of bowls: the serving of food (in this case, chili )
Romanian large bowl from the Middle Bronze Age ; c. 1550 BC; burnished earthenware; overall: 15.5 × 31.3 cm; Cleveland Museum of Art (U.S.)
Lakh - millet flour porridge in communal platter served topped with sweetened fermented milk (sow). Senegal, West Africa.