The 4 artifacts that were analyzed for use-wear show polish and striations indicative of cutting, grooving, or incising of a hard material such as bone, wood, or antler.

Incising, a method in which a design of flowering plants, birds, or some other decoration was cut into the leather-hard clay using a stylus, produced detailed, recessed images on the vessels; these were usually also highlighted in cobalt.

Klytie Pate (20 October 1912 - 10 June 2010) was an Australian Studio Potter who emerged as an innovator in the use of unusual glazes and the extensive incising, piercing and ornamentation of earthenware pottery.

The west side is similar but with 1939-45 incised on the base.

The East side is plain apart from 1914-18 incised on the base.

The stone above the doorway has been incised with what appears to be the year 1621.

But what you do here will be incised in the history of the United States for all time to come.

In the clay body, for example, by incising patterns on its surface.

He came at things from diagonals, incising when you least expected it.

She was using the two rods, first one and then the other, to incise letters on the rock.

The body is able to be gouged or incised without breaking.

The flattened face was indeed incised with a carving, as I had thought.

By contrast, in some early paintings lines were incised into the paint.

Man's head incised on black ground, 38.5 x 32 cm.

He stared down at the crest incised into the wax.

The collars had writing on them, incised in the steel, which I could not read.

The record is incised on the outer wall of the inner chamber.

Owl incised on a brown ground, 31 x 38.5 cm.

She stood there, leaning on the phone table, and started reading the names incised into the wood.

In the latter panel a talk balloon had been incised above the fish's head.

The vague outline of a tree was incised in the stone.

The second time the penny is incised like an intaglio.

The river may have been incising through sediment or bedrock.

The lintel above the front door is incised with the date "1998".

A small crater has incised a short section along the northern rim.

As he spoke, a flash incised the heavens directly in front of him.

It was then decorated by incising lines with a pointed tool.

Being based on characters which had been designed for incising in stone they were difficult and slow to write.