| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| fabric type |
ISC-CBM-3
|
| ware |
Ceramic Building Materials |
| supposed site of production |
Ischia |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
yellowish light brown, irregular; many large black inclusions |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
2.5YR6/3 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
2.5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0,08-0,2 |
| inclusions |
20%, length: 0,04-3 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
very frequent, angular, spherical - subspherical, clear; grey, 0.2-1 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
singular, well rounded, spherical, white, 0.4 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
riddled with, well rounded, spherical, white, 0,04 |
|
reddish inclusions |
singular, angular, spherical, light red, 0,8 |
|
black inclusions |
infrequent, very angular, spherical, black, 0,3 |
|
grey inclusions |
very frequent, rounded, spherical - subspherical, dark grey, 0,08-1,6 |
|
brown inclusions |
singular, angular, spherical, rusty brown, 0.4 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| vessel form type |
Tile |
| fragmentation |
body |
| |
Context Data
|
| site of discovery |
Velia
Late Archaic mudbrick houses beneath Insula II, trench 6/91 |
| registration code of context |
609/91 |
| registration code of object |
609/91 |
| chronology of context |
Gassner 2003, phase IIIa |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| applied method for sample analysis |
thin section and heavy mineral analysis |
| analysis author |
Roman Sauer |
| petrographic mineralogical type |
RVZ03B |
| sample taken |
November 1993, by Verena Gassner, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University |
| sample no |
M 8/2
 representative sample for ISC-CBM-3 |
| status of sample |
heavy mineral analysis surplus available |
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