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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.
The Shard. / 51.5045; -0.0865. The Shard, [ a] also referred to as the Shard London Bridge[ 12] and formerly London Bridge Tower, [ 13] is a pyramid-shaped 72-storey mixed-use development supertall skyscraper, designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano, in Bermondsey, London, that forms part of The Shard Quarter development.
Yes. Lachish ( Hebrew: לכיש, romanized : Lāḵîš; Koinē Greek: Λαχίς; Latin: Lachis) was an ancient Israelite city in the Shephelah ("lowlands of Judea") region of Canaan on the south bank of the Lakhish River mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible. The current tell by that name, known as Tel Lachish ( Hebrew: תל לכיש ...
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 longest Proto-Canaanite text ...
In 1987 Rice published Pottery Analysis and the glossary entry for sherd appears thus: “Sherd (potsherd, shard) a term archaeologists use to refer to a broken fragment of pottery.” p 481. Within the profession of archaeology as practiced and taught in the United States sherd is the preferred term for fragments of pottery.
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.
Shard (database architecture) A database shard, or simply a shard, is a horizontal partition of data in a database or search engine. Each shard is held on a separate database server instance, to spread load. Some data within a database remains present in all shards, [ a] but some appear only in a single shard. Each shard (or server) acts as the ...
This image was "one of the most popular motifs of the first millennium in Western Asia," [ 2][ 3] but originated earlier still. The Kuntillet Ajrud inscriptions refers to a set of jar and plaster inscriptions, stone incisions, and art discovered at the site of Kuntillet Ajrud. They were found at a unique Judean crossroads location that was ...