This item drops from earth elemental in Najena. I would think that there would be a different internal ID for the dropped item than for the foraged item, but the info panel is the same as the one listed above.
Foraged in the Grey 19 in a three hour session. Vendor (Sateal Deirosap in the bazaar) offered 2 silver 9 copper to level 2 monk with 143 Cha and no faction...tried to sell at one plat in the bazaar so I assume no one has found a recipe yet...and neither have I...bazaar prices on bertox as of 12/31/2005 range from 5 g to 5 plat..
The small ball of clay drop in Najeena on Al'Kabor, which was frozen before the mid-PoP patch. So it was at least added before LoY came out, and before the mid-PoP patch.
Well, the problem with EQtraders at the moment is it seems their hard-drive died, so they are using a pre-LDoN hard-drive just to keep afloat until they can figure out what to do to get back the post-LDoN info they lost. So its unlikely you'll find that annoying little ball of clay on EQtraders at the moment, I would think it has something to do with pottery. Then again, knowing EQ, it could be anything.
EQ Traders doesn't show a known recipe either. I've attempted a lot of different combines without success to date, with first assumption that this could be made into a "small block of clay" or another size combination of clay block for use in pottery.
I somehow seem to keep things forever, and then a week or so after selling or deleting find a use for it. I'm a halfling tailor and can just see kicking myself months later similar to when I got rid of all those USELESS "tuft of dire wolf fur" only to find out - what, I could of used them to make a 100% weight reduction bag - arghhhhhhh!!!!