Sentences with phrase «mammiform sherd»

Archaeologists who look for pottery sherds will not see coins, and, conversely, those who look for coins will not find sherds.

Thus says the Holy One of Israel, «Because you despise this word, and trust (sic) in oppression and perverseness... This iniquity shall be to you like a break in a high wall... which is smashed so ruthlessly that among its fragments not a sherd is found with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip water out of the cistern!»

Here we see unknown writers in the hills of ancient Judah, seated in simple homes that from the point of view of our present - day luxury might be regarded as little better than hovels, surrounded with furnishings more bare and austere than those of a medieval monastery, equipped with simple reed pens and rolls of papyrus, or perhaps with broken sherds of old pots, as they slowly indite in awkward, ancient Hebrew characters, words that have run like fire and are potent at this distant day.

Thus says the Holy One of Israel, «Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on them; therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a break in a high wall, bulging out, and about to collapse, whose crash comes suddenly, in an instant; and its breaking is like that of a potter's vessel which is smashed so ruthlessly that among its fragments not a sherd is found with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.»

That's because the modern country has just laid claim to the most ancient evidence for winemaking in Eurasia: wine - soaked pottery sherds that push back the genesis of fermented grape beverages in the region to nearly 8000 years ago.

There, they unearthed dozens of pottery sherds, which they reassembled into jars, some of which were emblazoned with logos that looked like bunches of grapes (above).

In the new study, a team led by Wiktorowicz ground up a small portion of each of the pottery fragments (or sherds), used detergent and other chemicals to dislodge any proteins stuck to them, and isolated and analyzed the protein fragments using various techniques.

Around the same era, ceramic sherds tempered with charred plants including rice were found in Shangshan, a Neolithic village in the lower Yangtse Valley.

tl; dr (abbreviation for too long; didn't read) is an internet slang expression commonly used in discussion forums as a shorthand response to previous TL dating of pottery sherds and baked soil from the Xian Terracotta Army Site, Shaanxi Province, China

In: Birchard SJ, Sherding RG (eds): Manual of Small Animal Practice (Second Edition), Philadelphia, WB Saunders, 295 - 304, 2000

In: Sherding RG, ed.

Peterson ME, Randolph JF, Mooney CT: Endocrine diseases, In: Sherding RG (ed): The Cat: Diagnosis and Clinical Management.

In Birchard, SJ; Sherding, RG (eds.)

Peterson ME, Randolph JF: Endocrine diseases, In: Sherding RG (ed): The Cat: Diagnosis and Clinical Management.

Enormous numbers of Coconut Walk sherds were also found there.

While we have not excavated at these sites, surface collections yielded sherds of high quality, imported pottery and artifacts such as basalt grinding stones and obsidian blades from remote areas.

A third - party collection from Laguna de Cayo Frances included a few Early Classic sherds, but no other Early Classic materials were discovered during subsequent visits to the site, despite considerable deep exposure due to looters.

Thousands of sherds of Coconut Walk pottery were recovered from this structure.

And there are sitll some sherds of reputation which needs to be destroyed.

Nearby, sherds of Medieval German stoneware excavated from the mud of the City of London have faces inscribed in them that recall Upritchard's totemic ceramic works.