Sentences with phrase «ceramic shard»

Mundane notes about daily life on 16 ceramic shards written about 600 B.C. at an ancient military fortress in the Negev Desert reveal that literacy had to be common.

Scientists have debated whether the first significant phase of the compilation of biblical texts happened before or after the fall of the first Temple, in 586 B.C. To get at the potential answers to that question, a group of researchers in Israel analyzed mundane inscriptions about the needs of daily life on 16 ceramic shards written about 600 B.C. from an ancient military fortress in Arad, at the northern edge of the Negev desert.

Breaking the plates and placing all of those ceramic shards must have been a chore.

Also in Encounters, Korean artist Yeesookyung's ceramic shards rejoined with golden epoxy were gathered together in Thousand (2014), appearing like mutating cells in a petri dish.

This is «Long Line» (2015), a sequential assemblage of wooden stakes, bits of weathered plastic, metal, Styrofoam, rubber, and ceramic shards, that were gathered by MPA in the desert near 29 Palms.

I am walking in a forest of shards, 2012 / site - specific installation / dimensions variable / ceramic shards, clay, metal Henry Moore Gallery at the Royal College of Art (London)

In smile (alluvium), a stubby sculpture protrudes from a pile of crushed ceramic shards; 6, a crumpled outline -LSB-...]

Not exact matches

They also filled boxes with shards of fine, coarse and transport ceramics, which will undergo scientific examination in order to allow more accurate dating of the fort and the village.

«This is from a Roman ceramic workshop that was here nearly 2,000 years ago,» I˙lada, a tour guide, says of the shard.

It is interesting to note that ceramic vessels found in graves at Lamanai usually lacked one fragment suggesting that a single shard was retained for ceremonial purposes.

From bespoke carpets and handcrafted columns, to glazed ceramics and glass shards, traditional exquisite Chinese craftsmanship is showcased throughout the hotel.

In «Leaves of Ore II,» Tam Van Tran begins with fragments such as porcelain shards that evoke memories of ceramic jars his mother used in Vietnam to make fish sauce and copper sheets that lift with air currents like palm fronds in the California Santa Ana winds.

And he put these steel structures up and covered them in cement and pressed shards of ceramics, of plates, I've seen corn cobs in there, I've seen tools.

By selecting broken shards of found and discarded ceramics, deemed as failures and re-firing the shards with new porcelain to give the works a second life.

De Wit's ceramic fragments double as both raw archeological objects and architectural artifact, where found ceramics are re-cast and hand painted, alongside the artist's own fabricated shards.

Manipulating ubiquitous materials like newspapers, mirrors, and shards of found ceramic, the artist disrupts the viewer's awareness of their surroundings and destabilizes familiar structures.

Sterling Ruby's large - scale ceramic basins are loaded with an array of ceramic objects made to resemble tools, rocks, animal tusks, and shards of rusted metal.

In abstract paintings, acts of defacement evolve into a painterly sublime; while wood - burning stoves, ceramic basins containing shards of broken or misfired pottery, and soft sculptures resembling fanged jaws convey the raw potential of sculpture.