Sentence examples for shaped clay from inspiring English sources

Archaeologists have discovered in lower Mesopotamia (now southern Iraq) large numbers of small, distinctively shaped clay objects.

The numeracy that preceded literacy can be charted through ancient, geometrically shaped clay tokens some dating to about 8000 bce that have been found throughout the Middle East.

This method is similar to the way the Native Americans shaped clay into useful pots.

The preliminary results demonstrated that a needle-like shaped clay promotes higher molar mass and better mechanical properties compared with laminar clay.

Allow the shaped clay to dry overnight before painting.

Place the shaped clay item where it can safely dry.

The tools -- hand-hewn wooden furrows plowing the earth, hand-shaped clay ovens baking bread -- create the beautiful necessities that make life bearable.

He has done this to shape clay busts in the hope of giving names to rotting corpses and skeletons found in woods or alleys or abandoned houses.

When I visited, Prouvost was back again, shaping clay pots for the enlarged version of the work she will show in the Turner prize exhibition this autumn.

From Albert Renger-Patzsch, known for austere images of industrial architecture taken between the wars, comes an image of a pair of hands shaping clay on a spinning potter's wheel.

When he came to make the sculptures, he says, he had no interest in them being an expression of his ability to shape clay; he instead found a company that worked for Madame Tussauds and began to collaborate with a commercial sculptor.