{The potter's field} (	ou agrou tou kerame(9373)). Grotius
suggests that it was a small field where potter's clay was
obtained, like a brickyard (Broadus). Otherwise we do not know
why the name exists. In  Ac 1:18  we have another account of the
death of Judas by bursting open (possibly falling after hanging
himself) after he obtained the field by the wages of iniquity.
But it is possible that ekt(8873)ato there refers to the rabbinical
use of _Korban_, that the money was still that of Judas though he
was dead and so he really "acquired" the field by his
blood-money.