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	The Mavens' Word of the Day
		A potsherd is a pottery fragment, but what matters here is the usual context of the word.
		Potsherd is chiefly found in archaeological writings--there aren't many places nowadays you'll encounter broken clay pots outside of an archaeological dig--and the connotation of the word is that a potsherd is a pottery fragment that has some archaeological value.
		Potsherd is formed from pot in the usual sense of 'a container', and sherd, an archaic variant of shard 'a fragment'.
	www.randomhouse.com /wotd/index.pperl?date=19970129 (0 words)

	Job 2:8 And he took a potsherd to scrape himself while he
		And he took a potsherd to scrape himself with; and he sat among the ashes.
		And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself with it; and he sat down among the ashes.
		Job 2:8 YLT: And he taketh to him a potsherd to scrape himself with it, and he is sitting in the midst of the ashes.
	www.bible.cc /job/2-8.htm (313 words)

	Job 2:8 And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself therewith;
		NASB: And he took a potsherd to scrape himself while he was sitting among the ashes.
		Bible in Basic English: And he took a broken bit of a pot, and, seated in the dust, was rubbing himself with the sharp edge of it.
		JPS Tanakh: And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself therewith; and he sat among the ashes.
	biblebrowser.com /job/2-8.htm (146 words)

	Top Literature - Potsherd
		In archaeology, a sherd is commonly a historic or prehistoric fragment of pottery, although the term is occasionally used of fragments from broken stone and glass vessels as well.
		It should be noted that while the word shard is generally reserved for referring to fragments of glass vessels (possibly as the word is reminiscent of — though not etymologcally related to — "sharp") the term does not necessarily exclude pottery fragments.
		A sherd or potsherd with writing painted or inscribed on it can be more precisely referred to as an ostracon.
	encyclopedia.topliterature.com /?title=Potsherd (152 words)

	Unearthing a great past
		The centrepiece of the discoveries is this potsherd with the motifs of a woman, a stalk of paddy, a crane, a deer and a crocodile.
		Potsherds found in the ruins of the habitation.
		Plenty of potsherds with graffiti, especially the ladder symbol, have been unearthed.
	www.hinduonnet.com /fline/fl2213/stories/20050701000106500.htm (1602 words)

	Hopscotch
		Sometimes at seven and ten he is required, while still standing on one foot, to pick up the potsherd, place it on the top of his ground foot, and then with a hop-kick throw it toward taw, clear of the court.
		Or with an upward jerk he may send the potsherd up in the air, catch it with his hands, replace it in the court, and kick it out without touching his foot to the ground.
		When he kicks it into the wrong division or on a line, he is out; and in each case the next in turn plays from taw, and the other players, when their turns come around again, begin at the division they failed in.
	www.inquiry.net /outdoor/games/beard/hopscotch.htm (1359 words)

	Greek alphabet was in use at 6000 BC (Site not responding. Last check: )
		After the discovery of a wooden plate at Dispilion Kastorias, which was dated at 5300 BC, a new impressive discovery came to light, concerning the "prehistorical" alphabet in the Greek region.
		The photograph of one of the written potsherds came out from the newspaper "Adesmeftos Tipos" (presentation of N.Nikitidis 13 February 1997) in a relevant publication under the title "The most ancient alphabet is Greek".
		On the surface of the potsherd the letters Alpha, Ypsilon, Delta in a row are clearly distinguished, which make up the root of the word "ÁÕÄÇ" (speech, voice), first encountered in "Theogony" (Hesiodus) as well as in "Iliad" (Homer).
	www.e-grammes.gr /1997/02/yura_en.htm (550 words)

	Satapatha Brahmana Part 1 (SBE12): First Kâ<I>n</I><I>d</I>a: I, 2, 1. Second ...
		He then lays down another (the fourth) south of the first or central one; after which he divides the still remaining potsherds equally between the southern and the northern segments, or, in case of that number being uneven, assigns the odd potsherd to the southern division.
		Similarly in the case of the cake on eleven potsherds for Agnîshomau, after laying down the first four potsherds, he assigns four of the remaining seven to the southern, and three to the northern division.
		Thus with cakes requiring an uneven number of potsherds, the number of those of the southern division exceeds that of the northern one by two; and in the case of an even number, by one only.
	www.sacred-texts.com /hin/sbr/sbe12/sbe1207.htm (2527 words)

	Archaeology in NE Nigeria - Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Potsherd pavements occur in several locations in the Chad Basin and southern Nigeria.
		It seems likely that at a certain point in time, potsherd pavements were widespread in the southern Lake Chad Basin.
		The earliest evidence for potsherd pavements in West Africa so far seems to be at Daima, which is dated to AD 650 (uncalibrated).
	www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de /~sfb268/c7/fir_arc.htm (340 words)

	Total - Mecenat
		As soon as they are taken out of the water and after their content has been sieved, all the objects are sent to the archaeology laboratory to be processed by more than forty land-based staff.
		Each article or fragment (in the case of ceramics, archaeologists use the term "potsherds") is then finally catalogued.
		The fragments are grouped according to families of objects, decoration or materials, and are then counted and weighed, down to the last potsherd.
	www.total.com /mecenat/us/reportages/jonque/p4_1_2_1.htm (249 words)

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