How To Use Potsherd In A Sentence
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Burnt lamp grease and potsherds were discovered close to the entrance passage.
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The majority of the finds were of fired clay in the form of whole vessels, potsherds, figurines, and pipes.
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It was a ruin in the making, and my friends and I were camped out amid its potsherds and tumuli.
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You can't go anywhere really without stumbling over potsherds, coins, bones etc. in some parts of the country.
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At Agadagbabou, an abandoned site, about sixty-seven percent of the potsherds recovered were undecorated.
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Small postholes containing iron nails, early medieval potsherds and a silver coin of Ethelred II dating to 1010 suggested that the terraces had been revetted by posts.
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Other vessels and potsherds are decorated with animal figures that suggest a usage other than the merely pragmatic.
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Small postholes containing iron nails, early medieval potsherds and a silver coin of Ethelred II dating to 1010 suggested that the terraces had been revetted by posts.
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It was a ruin in the making, and my friends and I were camped out amid its potsherds and tumuli.
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In Mesopotamia, where the reading of omens was developed into an art, the symptoms of the disease were understood as omens too, just as a potsherd found by the exorciser on his way to the sick man could be of ominous portent.
HEALTH AND DISEASE
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Artifacts discovered here included potsherds, some tuyeres, a clay smoking-pipe, oval-shaped pieces of chalk, shells of a variety of saltwater shellfish, and mammalian bones.
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As the dig begins to uncover potsherds, roof tiles, stonework, utensils or even window glass, a picture is beginning to be built up of what a structure may have looked like, or been used for.
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We surface-collected 14 chipped stone artifacts and 29 prehistoric potsherds in the course of five visits to the Robinson site in 1991.
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(Genesis 41: 45,50; 46: 20) (B.C. Potsherd also in Authorized Version "sherd," a broken piece of earthenware.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
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He studies the potsherds, blackware, urnfields, fossils, salt routes and water-courses of sites where, before Gallo-Roman colonization, ‘earth and artifact’ existed in ‘perfect symbiosis.’
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Brilliant as he was indefatigable, he recreated the Zuni past from their syllables and potsherds.
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Prehistoric pottery was abundant in the test pits, with 1,360 potsherds, including 34 rim sherds and 50 decorated body sherds, recovered.
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The field is still popularly associated more with tents than texts: stones, bones, and potsherds.
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The Mesopotamians gave to the Indus basin the name ‘Meluhha’ and there have been finds of Indus potsherds and artefacts at the royal cemetery at Ur in southern Iraq.
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Among numerous pottery vessels and potsherds, 113 pieces bore 30 incised signs or symbols.
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The field is still popularly associated more with tents than texts: stones, bones, and potsherds.
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Every scrape of my boot uncovered green, blue, and turquoise potsherds.
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He curated an exhibition a couple of years ago which included a letter on a potsherd in Coptic.
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Artifacts discovered here included potsherds, some tuyeres, a clay smoking-pipe, oval-shaped pieces of chalk, shells of a variety of saltwater shellfish, and mammalian bones.
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They are not only not interested in it, but are more interested in broken potsherds.
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Archaeologists are often fearful of drifting too far from the ‘scientific’ rigour of postholes and potsherds into a reliance on what some see as ‘biased’ documents.
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He curated an exhibition a couple of years ago which included a letter on a potsherd in Coptic.
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Although no diagnostic Late Archaic artifacts were recovered, the Early Woodland component of the site is reflected by the presence of ovate-stemmed points, a granitic celt, and Adena thick potsherds.
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Brilliant as he was indefatigable, he recreated the Zuni past from their syllables and potsherds.
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He had become fairly comfortable with me, but he would not have dared pick up a potsherd without Emerson's permission.
LORD OF THE SILENT
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They can erase the traces of human settlement with such vigour that, often, nothing remains of a civilisation except a few potsherds, coins and glass beads.
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Inside they found a black-grayish basalt mummiform sarcophagus coated with a layer of earth and potsherds affixed to the lid with plaster.
Czech Egyptologists Open Shaft Tomb, Identify Royal Burial at Abusir
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This produced no immediate effect; he then got a small bundle of different kinds of medicinal woods, and, burning them in a potsherd nearly to ashes, used the smoke and hot vapor arising from them as an auxiliary to the other in causing diaphoresis.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
