| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| fabric type |
CAL-G-3
|
| ware |
Glazed Wares |
| supposed site of production |
Calabria |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
reddish yellow, granular; some fine white inclusions, scattered red particles, micacious |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
7.5YR6/6 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
2,5%; void form: channel; vughy; void length: 0,04-0,08 |
| inclusions |
5%, length: 0,02-0,3 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
infrequent, angular, spherical, white, 0,04-0,3 |
|
mica |
very frequent, angular, spherical; very elongate, dark; white, 0.02-0,08 |
|
reddish inclusions |
frequent, rounded, spherical - subspherical, reddish brown, 0,2-0.4 |
|
black inclusions |
infrequent, angular, spherical - subspherrical, black, 0,04-0,1 |
|
foraminifera |
frequent, rounded, spherical, white, 0,08-0,3 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| fragmentation |
body |
| surface description |
glazed
interior: red glaze |
| |
Context Data
|
| site of discovery |
Rhegion
Vico la Russa, Cistern 1990 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| applied method for sample analysis |
thin section and heavy mineral analysis |
| analysis author |
Roman Sauer |
| petrographic mineralogical type |
RRG1 |
| sample taken |
July 1995, by Verena Gassner, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University |
| sample no |
M 53/1
 representative sample for CAL-G-3 |
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