Shape Family
Sherd
Also called fragment, potsherd
- Objects
- 91
Use only when the vessel's shape cannot be told from the fragment.
Glossary Sherd: A broken piece of pottery; most of the pottery found on excavations and surveys is recovered as sherds.
Across the catalogue
Wares
Periods
Decoration techniques
Motifs
Places of production
- Cyprus73
Findspots
Materials
- Clay90
Collections
- The British Museum Collection36
- Royal Ontario Museum13
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art10
- Hunterian Museum9
- Alexis Drakopoulos6
- Cyprus Museum, Nicosia5
- Archeological Museum, Kourion3
- Larnaca Museum3
Objects
1–48 of 91
"Red Slip Grooved Vessel"
Geometric
"White Painted Vessel"
Geometric I
Base Ring Ware Sherd
Late Bronze Age II
basin
Middle Bronze Age II
Black-On-Red Geometric Jug Sherd
Geometric II
Black-On-Red Vessel
Geometric
Black-On-Red Vessel
Geometric
Black-On-Red Ware Vessel
Geometric
Chalcolithic Bowl
Chalcolithic
Chimney spout from a vessel of unusual type
Middle Bronze Age I
Combed Ware Bowl Fragment with Multiple Wavy Bands
Neolithic
Combed Ware Bowl Fragment with Oblique Bands
Neolithic
Combed Ware Bowl Fragment with Parallel Bands
Neolithic
Complex Vessel Rim
Geometric
Fragment from an Eastern Sigillata "A" Ware Relief Krater
Roman
Fragment from the neck of a terracotta amphora (jar)
Geometric III
Fragment of a spout
Late Bronze Age III
Fragment of Jar with inscription
Geometric
Free Field Sherd
Late Bronze Age II
Free Field Sherd
Late Bronze Age II
Handle fragment
Late Bronze Age II
Handle of a bowl
Bronze Age
Handle of a jug
Archaic II
Handle of a jug
Archaic II
Handle of a jug
Archaic II
Handle of a jug
Archaic II
Handle of a jug
Archaic II
Handle of a kylix
Archaic II
Handle of White Painted jug
Middle Bronze Age I
Inscription on Sherd
Late Bronze Age II
jar
Early Bronze Age III
jug
Middle Bronze Age II
jug
Middle Bronze Age II
jug
Middle Bronze Age II
juglet
Early Bronze Age III
Juglet handle fragment
Late Bronze Age II
Mycenaean Broken Handle
Late Bronze Age II
Mycenaean Free Field Pottery Sherd
Late Bronze Age II
Red Lustrous Ware Body Sherd with Fire-Mottled Slip
Neolithic
Red Polished Milk Bowl Spout
Early Bronze Age I
Red Slip Ware Body Sherd with Streaked Slip
Chalcolithic
Relief Frieze Sherd
Late Bronze Age II
Sherds from a bowl
Bronze Age
Small spout with an attached human face
Geometric II
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Terracotta Bowl Handle
Middle Bronze Age I
Terracotta vase fragment
Bronze Age
Vase neck
Geometric I
vessel
Neolithic