A few specimens of potsherds were collected from the fields about Sevierville.
When the surface of the mound was first plowed quantities of charcoal and potsherds were found.
Some of the potsherds were one-third of an inch thick, and large enough to show that they had been parts of a large jar.
There were also some potsherds there, but of the same kind as those used by the people of to-day.
Above these are gravels brought down by the floods and landslides of more modern times, in which may be found potsherds and bones.
There were a few potsherds lying on the surface of the ground, so weathered as to have lost whatever decoration they once had.
We found among the ruins a few crude potsherds and some bits of obsidian.
While I was examining the ruins and digging up a few attractive potsherds bearing Inca designs, Dr.
Only, the estuary where he beached his vessels is long since silted up and is buried beneath many feet of the rubble and refuse, the shards and potsherds that mark the passing of many busy generations.
They could not be so minutely examined as the Post Office pits, but it was possible to observe that their datable potsherds fell roughly within the period A.
The date of the other layer is harder to fix, since we are not told how the coins and potsherds were distributed between the layers.
First, he thinks that the occurrence of early Roman potsherds at certain points near the walls proves the town to have grown to its full extent by about A.
Whether any of the first-century potsherds as yet found there can be assigned to these years (say A.
Like words, however, potsherds enlighten us more about frontiers and contrasts than about uniformities.
The quantity of potsherdsscattered about the ruins is noticeably small.
The absence of bricks may perhaps be explained by the supposition that they were saved in order to be used a second time; but the immense quantity of potsherds still remains to be accounted for.
Paolo, between the Aventine and the river, stands the hill called Monte Testaccio from its being composed almost entirely of potsherds mixed with rubbish.
In the well-known Athenian institution of Ostracism the act of voting was performed by writing on fragments of tiles or potsherds the names of those whom it was desired to banish.
FN#418] After either evacuation the Moslem is bound to wash or sand the part; first however he should apply three pebbles, or potsherds or clods of earth.
And they did go; and they sat with him in his place of ashes and potsherds for seven days.
Five kings may fight with four in the vale of Siddim, the potsherds of the earth may strive with their fellows; all this, in one sense, is no concern of the heavenly stranger, though his tent may be pitched in the neighbourhood.
They cannot strive with thepotsherds of the earth.
The mind of God had another lesson for him than that which he learnt while the potsherds of the earth were alone in the conflict; and a time to break silence calls him out at the head of his trained servants.
Let the potsherds strive with the potsherds of the earth," but let not a feeble, sinful worm rise up in rebellion against the Almighty; for who hath hardened himself against him and hath prospered?
Brickbats sometimes took the place of stone, and sand (section 146) that of the volcanic ashes; potsherds crushed fine were better than the sand.
There is a text 'He is to offer a purodâsa on eleven potsherds to Indra the ruler, to Indra the supreme ruler, to Indra the self-ruler.
The quantity of these potsherds is quite small, and they occur mainly in the refuse heaps on the mesa edge.
Clem and I went back to the large house ruins for a re-examination, and looked over the quantities of broken arrowheads of jasper and the potsherds strewing the place in search of specimens of value.
Fragments of arrow-heads, chips of chalcedony, and quantities of potsherds scattered around proved that our ancient Shinumos had known the region well.
Footnote 418: After either evacuation the Moslem is bound to wash or sand the part; first however he should apply three pebbles, or potsherds or clods of earth.
The two perpendicular rows of stamped and rouletted potsherds on each side of this group were found at an ancient camp-site on the south bluff of the Sangamon river, on the Center Farm, in the north part of Menard Co.
The five smaller potsherds beneath these were also found by Mark Piper, at Kingfisher Hill.
The water in the course of centuries had so exposed some of the potsherds that Petrie was confident before he began digging that rich discoveries awaited him.
A pile of these potsherds, when struck with a stick, emits a distinct musical "clink," which is not the case with potsherds from the earlier periods.
