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Definition of Sherds
1. sherd [n] - See also: sherd
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sherds
Literary usage of Sherds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Potters' Quarter: The Pottery by Agnes Newhall Stillwell, J. L. Benson (1984)
"13: "From an area of about square meters we obtained over seventy baskets of
sherds, some Proto- Corinthian, but the majority Early Corinthian. ..."
2. Archaic Corinthian Pottery and the Anaploga Well by Darrell Arlynn Amyx, Patricia Lawrence (1975)
"In the lots of sherds, there is a change at basket 100; fragments of basins are
... There were fewer rim fragments of basins or sherds of cooking pots. ..."
3. A Lm Ia Ceramic Kiln in South-Central Crete: Function and Pottery Production by Joseph W. Shaw (2001)
"If these strata indeed represent the dismantled kiln superstructure, the sherds
would have been removed only after the kiln had been leveled. ..."
4. Man and His Past by Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford (1921)
"sherds and stones and such-like are used by the archaeologist because they are
the only means ... It is important to grasp the fact that the sherds ..."
5. The Chrysokamino Metallurgy Workshop and Its Territory by Philip P. Betancourt (2006)
"circular deposit of sherds extends across an area with a width of ca. ...
Within this area, the sherds are distributed fairly evenly, occurring as small, ..."
6. The Architecture, Stratification, and Pottery of Lerna III by Martha Heath Wiencke (2000)
"I¡2' were not kept but appeared to have included nothing necessarily later than
phase B. The sherds found above this floor were combined with sherds from ..."
7. A Sanctuary of Zeus on Mount Hymettos by Merle K. Langdon (1976)
"which is now a forbidden military zone, Smith and Lowry report finding quantities
of Classical sherds and tile fragments. This site is near the rock-hewn ..."
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