Sherd

Every one taking an ostracon, a sherd, that is, or piece of earthenware, wrote upon it the citizen’s name he would have banished, and carried it to a certain part of the market-place surrounded with wooden rails. ❋ Plutarch (1909)

Every one taking an ostracon, that is, a sherd, a piece of earthenware, wrote upon it the citizen's he would have banished, and carried it to a certain part of the market-place surrounded with wooden rails. ❋ 46-120? Plutarch (1884)

Every one taking an ostracon, a sherd, that is, or piece of earthenware, wrote upon it the citizen’s name he would have banished, and carried it to a certain part of the market-place surrounded with wooden rails. ❋ Plutarch (2003)

(Genesis 41: 45,50; 46: 20) (B.C. Potsherd also in Authorized Version "sherd," a broken piece of earthenware. ❋ Unknown (1884)

I was walking on marine shell, rangia clam shell, walking out on a point I know, when I looked down, found a pot sherd, and then I started finding more and more, Travirca recalled. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And so even if there are affinities of language between the fragments of text on this sherd and what we find in the Hebrew Bible, that might only indicate that old sources were used a point of which most scholars have long been persuaded based on other considerations or that older texts were being imitated. ❋ James F. McGrath (2010)

There is no definite archaeological evidence from Birdoswald between the post-Roman timber halls described above and one medieval pottery sherd from the twelfth/thirteenth century Wilmott 2001 p. ❋ Carla (2010)

I think it attests the ingenuity of researchers who will not be stymied completely in the distant future when they stumble across the sherd of a Coca-Cola bottle or a fragment of old vinyl or other detritus from our disposable twentieth-first century culture. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I have long been fascinated by the way archaeologists begin with the humblest of clues, say a dark-blue residue on a jagged sherd, and end up after years of scientific analysis with an entirely new glimpse into the lives of the Maya and the way in which they painted both people and jars a bright sky-blue before sacrificing them to their rain god Chaak. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For Sagalassos alone, we have 33 depots and more then 50.000 finds (and then we are counting bulk finds, registered per context, and not every sherd individualy!) ❋ Unknown (2009)

Two objects were deposited under the shoulder of the bottle: a piece of a long thin bone from some medium-sized bird, possibly a partridge, and a redware rim sherd from a small black-glazed bowl. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Percentages of different pottery types of the Ottoman period by sherd count and sherd weight. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This is an area with evidence for human activity at 21 find-spots, where the early and middle Ottoman periods (ca. 15th-16th and 17th-18th centuries A.D.) are the most well-represented in the surface ceramic assemblages, with a total of approximately 40% of finds (by sherd count and sherd weight) dated to that period (Table 1). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Percentages of post-Roman ceramic finds from the surveyed area of Akyamac by sherd count and sherd weight. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sealed with a carved wooden plug (center), the Essington witch bottle contained pins (left), and was accompanied by a pottery sherd and bird bone (right). ❋ Unknown (2009)

It's not much, but finding this sherd of pottery from a time when there simply was not much pottery feels like discovering the Holy Grail. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Lastly, at the lower part of this fill, there were a few more finds: a sherd of a tray, a handle of a cooking pot, a miniature cup, white plaster, and a probable stone tool. ❋ Unknown (2007)