MALTA-C-2

fabric description

object data

archaeometry

fabric type	MALTA-C-2
ware	Coarse Wares Local Plain
supposed site of production	Malta
certainty of arguments	archaeological: quite certain
visual excamination of fresh break	colour red, core grey, texture coarse and compact, numerous fine to large inclusions: yellowish, white, red, grey, voids
colour of freshly broken section (munsell)	light red 10 R 6/8, core light reddish brown 2.5 5 YR 6/3
texture of freshly broken surface	irregular
hardness	hard
porosity	5%; void form: vughy (0.04-4.0); channel (0.06-1.2); void length: 0.04-4.0
inclusions	12.5%, length: <0.04-1.8
sorting	unsorted
	Inclusions
quartz	singular, well rounded, spherical, clear, 0.08
mica	frequent, angular, elongate, spherical, white, <0.04-0.04
calciumcarbonate	riddled with, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, yellowish white, white, <0.04-0.06
carbonate pseudomorphoses	riddled with, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, yellowish white, white, 0.04-0.56
reddish inclusions	very frequent, rounded - subangular, subspherical, elongate, red, reddish brown, <0.04-0.8
black inclusions	infrequent, rounded - subangular, subspherical, elongate, black, <0.04-0.32
foraminifera	very frequent, well rounded, rounded, very spherical, subspherical, very elongate, white, yellowish, 0.08-0.68
more inclusions2	very frequent, subangular - very angular, subspherical - subelongate, yellowish white, yellowish, reddish, 0.08-1.8

vessel form type	Closed Vessel
fragmentation	base
surface description	slipped exterior: thick white slip 2.5 Y 8/2, interior: light red 10R6/6
drawing
	Context Data
site of discovery	Malta Zejtun
registration code of context	ZTN 06/548
registration code of object	ZTN 06/548-6
chronology of context	400-300 B.C.E.
changes of previously edited data	The fabric description of the fresh break has been substituted by a new one. The macrophotos of the present sample have been substituted by new ones.

sample taken	2009, by Babette Bechtold, Department of Classics and Archaeology, University of Malta
sample no	M 114/9

Cite this page as: FACEM - http://facem.at/m-114-9

Distribution of fabric type
“MALTA-C-2”

Malta Malta Malta Malta Malta Malta Malta Malta Malta Malta Malta Malta Malta Malta Malta Malta Malta Malta

production sampling

Representative sample for
“MALTA-C-2”

M 114/4

There are 8 more samples assigned to fabric type
“MALTA-C-2”.

Fabrics of Malta: Systematic fabric studies on Maltese pottery have a relatively short history. In 2000 B. Bruno and C. Capelli published a first paper dealing with three fabrics, identified, on the basis of archaeometric analyses, among two amphorae types of the Late Republican and Early Imperial period.

Anfore e ceramica acroma dall'avamposto militare di Monte Turcisi (CT). Uno studio preliminare sulle provenienze: Introduzione Il modesto rilievo collinare alto 303 m, denominato ?Monte Turcisi?, si trova al confine settentrionale della Piana di Catania e ricade oggi nel comune di Castel Di Iudica, in provincia della città etnea. Le strutture di interesse archeologico su di esso affiornati riguardano principalmente i resti relatvi ad una fortezza militare di epoca greca e di un eremo del XVII sec. d.C.

Inclusions

Context Data