Amid a pile of mass - produced bowls were
potsherds with marks similar to the pictographs that show up more than half a millennium later in the first writing system, cuneiform.
Excavations at Lachish in 2014 turned up an ostracon (clay
potsherd with writing) dating to around 1130 B.C..
Not exact matches
«Woe to him who quarrels
with his Maker, to him who is but a
potsherd among the
potsherds on the ground.
Oates quickly emerged as an expert not only in identifying the many varieties of
potsherds but also in interpreting them
with remarkable precision.