PAE-A-3

fabric description

object data

archaeometry

fabric type	PAE-A-3
ware	Transport Amphorae
supposed site of production	Paestum
certainty of arguments	archaeometric: quite certain
visual excamination of fresh break	light red, granular; numerous fine to large white particles, some medium-sized brown and dark gray inclusions
colour of freshly broken section (munsell)	10R6/6
texture of freshly broken surface	granular
hardness	hard
porosity	2.5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0,08-0.24
inclusions	3.5%, length: 0.16-4.6
sorting	poorly sorted silt
	Inclusions
quartz	infrequent, angular, spherical, clear; white, 0.16-0.16
mica	singular
reddish inclusions	infrequent, rounded, spherical, red, 0.08-4.6
black inclusions	infrequent, rounded, subelongate, black
foraminifera	singular, snail, white, 2.8

vessel form type	Amphora Western Greek amphora, Gassner's rim 3
fragmentation	rim
surface description	slipped pink, 5YR8/3
chronology of object	Greek-Classic
	Context Data
site of discovery	Velia Insula II, room 10, ditch for the foundation
registration code of context	349/42
registration code of object	349/92-12
chronology of context	residual in Roman context

applied method for sample analysis	thin section and heavy mineral analysis
analysis author	Roman Sauer
petrographic mineralogical type	b
sample taken	July 3, 1992, by Hannah Liko, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University
sample no	M 10/4
status of sample	no remains

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Distribution of fabric type
“PAE-A-3”

production sampling

Representative sample for
“PAE-A-3”

M 6/77

There are 16 more samples assigned to fabric type
“PAE-A-3”.

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Inclusions

Context Data