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A fragment of pottery. [30] In specialised usage sherd is preferred over the more common spelling shard, where sherd refers to ceramics and shard to glass. [31] profile Vertical exposure of an excavated area, feature or artefact (as seen from the side), possibly also in section; a drawing or photograph of the same.
Ancient Egyptian pottery includes all objects of fired clay from ancient Egypt. [ 1 ] First and foremost, ceramics served as household wares for the storage, preparation, transport, and consumption of food, drink, and raw materials. Such items include beer and wine mugs and water jugs, but also bread moulds, fire pits, lamps, and stands for ...
An ostracon ( Greek: ὄστρακον ostrakon, plural ὄστρακα ostraka) is a piece of pottery, usually broken off from a vase or other earthenware vessel. In an archaeological or epigraphical context, ostraca refer to sherds or even small pieces of stone that have writing scratched into them.
Khirbet Qeiyafa ostracon. The Khirbet Qeiyafa ostracon is a 15-by-16.5-centimetre (5.9 in × 6.5 in) ostracon (a trapezoid -shaped potsherd) with five lines of text, [ 1] discovered in Building II, Room B, in Area B of the excavations at Khirbet Qeiyafa in 2008. [ 2] Hebrew University archaeologist Amihai Mazar said the inscription was the ...
Hand building a jar. Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other raw materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard and durable form. The place where such wares are made by a potter is also called a pottery (plural potteries ). The definition of pottery, used by the ASTM ...
The Xianren Cave (Chinese: 仙人洞, Xiānréndòng), together with the nearby Diaotonghuan (Chinese: 吊桶环, Diàotǒnghuán) rock shelter, is an archaeological site in Dayuan Township (大源乡), Wannian County in the Jiangxi province, China [1] and a location of historically important discoveries of prehistoric pottery shards that bears evidence of early rice cultivation.
Pottery Mound (LA 416) was a late prehistoric village on the bank of the Rio Puerco, west of Los Lunas, New Mexico. It was an adobe pueblo most likely occupied between 1350 and 1500. The site is best known for its 17 kivas, which yielded a large number of murals. A 2007 book, New Perspectives on Pottery Mound Pueblo ( Polly Schaafsma 2007 ...
The McClelland sherd, Tell Jisr sherd or El-Jisr sherd is a fragment of pottery discovered by McClelland at Tell Jisr, near Rashaya in Lebanon and first studied by George E. Mendenhall in 1971. Description. The ostracon displays a series of incisions in the pottery that have been suggested to be an early type of Bronze Age writing.