W-SARD-A-3

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W-SARD-A-3

fabric description

object data

archaeometry

fabric type	W-SARD-A-3
fabric previously published as	Impasto 30
ware	Transport Amphorae
supposed site of production	Western Sardinia
certainty of arguments	archaeological: quite certain
visual excamination of fresh break	colour light grey, texture fine and compact, numerous fine to some large inclusions: red,grey, white
colour of freshly broken section (munsell)	light grey 10 YR 7/2
texture of freshly broken surface	regular
hardness	hard
porosity	3.5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0.06-0.4
inclusions	15%, length: <0.04-1.6
sorting	unsorted
	Inclusions
quartz	very frequent, rounded - subrounded, subangular - very angular, spherical, subelongate, elongate, white, clear, grey, <0.04-0.44
mica	infrequent, spherical, angular, elongateerical, white, dark, <0.04-0.06
calciumcarbonate	frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, white, 0.06-0.16
carbonate pseudomorphoses	infrequent, subrounded, very spherical, subspherical, white, yellowish red, 0.08-0.2
reddish inclusions	riddled with, well rounded - subangular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, very elongate, red, reddish brown, <0.04-0.24
black inclusions	very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, very elongate, black, <0.04-0.52
brown inclusions	singular, very elongate, brown, 0.92-1.6
foraminifera	infrequent, subrounded, subspherical, orange, 0.12-0.48
more inclusions2	singular, subrounded, very spherical, black and red, 0.4
more inclusions3	singular, subrounded, subspherical, orange, 0.2-0.56

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Distribution of fabric type
“W-SARD-A-3”

Pantelleria Pantelleria Pantelleria Pantelleria

production sampling

Representative sample for
“W-SARD-A-3”

There are 4 more samples assigned to fabric type
“W-SARD-A-3”.

Other fabrics of western Sardinia: By contrast to W-SARD-A-1 to W-SARD-A-5,1 the following two fabrics W-SARD-A-6 and W-SARD-A-7 have not been defined on the basis of the analysis of the Riu Mannu and Terralba materials, but have been observed in samples from Carthage and Pantelleria.

Fabrics of Western Sardinia: Two fabrics have been defined by the Riu Mannu and Terralba projects on the basis of sys? tematically and intensively collected surface finds (1992?99 and 2003?04). Around 4,000 fragments from a dozen sites ...

Western Greek and Sardinian Amphorae from Punic Sites in the Southern Mediterranean: New Evidence from Fabric Analysis for Economic Interaction in the Carthaginian Sphere of Influence (6th-3rd century B.C.E.)