(Genesis 41: 45,50; 46: 20) (B.C. Potsherd also in Authorized Version "sherd," a broken piece of earthenware. From Wordnik.com. [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference
Diver Nikita Zelenko excavates a large amphora sherd. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig: Black Sea Shipwreck Research Project] Reference
Platform and postholes on the west side of the sherd wall. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Hierakonpolis 2007 - Field Note 1] Reference
Next we keep the sherd in its stance and measure its height. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Hierakonpolis 2007 - Field Note 4] Reference
Woe to him that gainsayeth his maker, a sherd of the earthen pots. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915] Reference
First, we start by identifying the stance at which the sherd "sits.". From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Hierakonpolis 2007 - Field Note 4] Reference
Bottom, an Early Iron Age sherd with incised leaf (or arrow head) decoration. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Survey Report 12] Reference
Time and time again I failed as I tried to draw my first sherd all by myself. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Hierakonpolis 2007 - Field Note 4] Reference
By carefully cleaning each sherd, evidence of those who made it slowly emerges. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Pompeii - Journals] Reference
And for a few moments all the rest would be glad, till the next sherd was drawn. From Wordnik.com. [The King Must Die]
Examining sherds in the sherd yard to determine the fabric and the original shape. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Hierakonpolis 2007 - Field Note 4] Reference
Drawing my dagger I crossed out the name scratched on the sherd, and wrote "Theseus.". From Wordnik.com. [The King Must Die]
We then measure the thickness of the sherd to make sure we do not draw it too thick or thin. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Hierakonpolis 2007 - Field Note 4] Reference
One sherd of a small Attic black-glossed, closed vessel clearly points in the same direction. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Survey Report 7] Reference
Percentages of different pottery types of the Ottoman period by sherd count and sherd weight. From Wordnik.com. [Ceramic Studies « Interactive Dig Sagalassos – City in the Clouds] Reference
We use our "sherd yard" to receive every sherd that is collected from the site being excavated. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Hierakonpolis 2007 - Field Note 4] Reference
This sherd is large enough in profile to give us an idea of the vessel's original size and style. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Black Sea: Video Diary: August 3, 2007] Reference
Left, The pottery kiln at HK11C has a wall of similar sherd and mud construction pierced by doors. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Hierakonpolis 2007 - Field Note 3] Reference
Only scant habitation, attested by the odd sherd or coin, took place after the thirteenth century. From Wordnik.com. [A Sacred Congregation] Reference
Once we have the stance, we place the rim on a chart to determine the arc or curvature of the sherd. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Hierakonpolis 2007 - Field Note 4] Reference
Now, we have the fully traced sherd on the right side of the paper and the exterior half on the left. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Hierakonpolis 2007 - Field Note 4] Reference
That sherd collection disclosed a puzzling mixture of pre-Pueblo and later pottery types, top to bottom. From Wordnik.com. [The Architecture of Pueblo Bonito :] Reference
The fragments are then sorted as to their original place on a ceramic vessel -- rim, base, or body sherd. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Hierakonpolis 2007 - Field Note 4] Reference
Both are primarily sherd-tempered, but the one is ornamented with mineral paint and the other with organic. From Wordnik.com. [The Architecture of Pueblo Bonito :] Reference
We found three handle-less cups, a sherd from a pithos, and some other sherds, as well as burnt wood and bones. From Wordnik.com. [Picture 86 « Field Notes 2006 « Interactive Dig Crete – Zominthos Project] Reference
We then trace the section of the sherd, interior, exterior, rim, and broken edge, onto a scratch piece of paper. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Hierakonpolis 2007 - Field Note 4] Reference
Layer C every painted sherd was decorated with a black mineral paint and most of them were exclusively sherd-tempered. From Wordnik.com. [The Architecture of Pueblo Bonito :] Reference
Its lower levels contained a large amount of finds, including a very large dolium (large terra-cotta container) sherd. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - N-S Colonnaded Street Report 3] Reference
Left, a sherd, probably Geometric to Archaic, decorated with circles and a horseshoe-shaped motif near the upper edge. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Survey Report 12] Reference
To draw a sherd accurately so that it will be a useful record for future analysis and study requires quite a few steps. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Hierakonpolis 2007 - Field Note 4] Reference
Emerging from the seafloor, a large amphora sherd with intact handle is excavated by archaeology student, Claire Collins. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Black Sea: Video Diary: August 3, 2007] Reference
Finds can be quite large also, like this massive pithos (storage jar) sherd almost a meter wide and three centimeters thick. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Black Sea: Video Diary: August 13, 2007] Reference
The native ware is easily recognizable by its smoothness and hardness; when struck with a stick a sherd emits a musical clink. From Wordnik.com. [How to Observe in Archaeology] Reference
The tablewares are counted and weighed, the rim diameter determined, and the remaining percentage of the rim sherd calculated. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Ceramic Studies Report 3] Reference
The degree of the arc on the sherd will tell us the overall diameter of the rim or base of the vessel that the sherd came from. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Hierakonpolis 2007 - Field Note 4] Reference
There was a sherd of moon partway up the eastern sky, and the stars all stood in their expected places and looked chill and brittle. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Mountain]
One of our best divers, Nikita Zelenko, excavates a large amphora sherd with intact handles and stopper made from pine bark and resin. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Black Sea: Video Diary: July 27, 2007] Reference
Each time I saw the faces of the kindred, fixed on the sherd, so that the line of faces was like one long pale serpent filled with eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The King Must Die]
Casual sherd samples I collected in 1920 at half a dozen small sites on the south side of the canyon between The Gap and Wirito's Rincon. From Wordnik.com. [The Architecture of Pueblo Bonito :] Reference
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