PAE-A-3

fabric description

object data

archaeometry

fabric type	PAE-A-3
fabric previously published as	Impasto 82
ware	Transport Amphorae
supposed site of production	Paestum
certainty of arguments	archaeological: quite certain
visual excamination of fresh break	colour light red, texture middle fine and compact, numerous fine and some large inclusions: white, gray, red, mica
colour of freshly broken section (munsell)	light red 2.5 YR 6/6
texture of freshly broken surface	irregular
hardness	hard
porosity	3.5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0.04-1.0
inclusions	15%, length: 0.04-1.0
sorting	unsorted
	Inclusions
quartz	very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, subangular - angular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, grey, clear, white, 0.04-1.0
mica	very frequent, spherical, angular, elongate, white, dark, <0.04-0.04
calciumcarbonate	riddled with, well rounded - subrounded, angular, spherical - subspherical, subelongate, elongate, white, 0.04-0.4
carbonate pseudomorphoses	frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, white, yellowish white, 0.08-0.24
reddish inclusions	very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, angular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, <0.04-0.4
black inclusions	frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, 0.04-0.64

vessel form type	Amphora MGS V/Gassner 10
fragmentation	rim
dimensions	diameter: 12.6cm (rim)
chronology of object	Greek-Hellenistic 260-220 B.C.E.
publication	Bechtold 2013c, fig. 20,4.
drawing
	Context Data
site of discovery	Pantelleria Acropolis Survey
registration code of context	ACR RIC 07, UT 176.1
registration code of object	ACR RIC 07, UT 176.1-4

sample taken	2010, by Babette Bechtold, Institute of Classical Archaeology, University of Tübingen
sample no	M 119/218

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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