VEL-G-2

fabric description

object data

archaeometry

fabric type	VEL-G-2
ware	Glazed Wares
supposed site of production	Velia
certainty of arguments	archaeometric: quite certain
visual excamination of fresh break	brown to grey, fine; some fine white inclusions
colour of freshly broken section (munsell)	7.5YR5/6-10YR5/1
texture of freshly broken surface	fine
hardness	very hard
porosity	2.5%; void form: channel; vughy; void length: 0.04-0.25
inclusions	2.5%, length: 0.02-0.28
sorting	unsorted
	Inclusions
quartz	infrequent, angular, spherical, clear, 0.04-0.32
mica	infrequent, angular, spherical, white, 0.02-0.04
reddish inclusions	infrequent, rounded, elongate, rust coloured, 0.04-0.28
black inclusions	infrequent, well rounded, spherical, black, 0.04
white inclusions	infrequent, well rounded, spherical, white, 0.04-0.08

vessel form type	Skyphos
fragmentation	body
surface description	glazed shining glaze, mottled reddish yellow to dark brown
publication	Gassner et al. 2014, 203
	Context Data
site of discovery	Velia Crossroad
registration code of context	46/89
registration code of object	46/89
chronology of context	Velia, phase B 2 (450-425 BC) Trapichler 2004; Gassner 2006, 477; Trapichler 2003a, phase 2

applied method for sample analysis	thin section and heavy mineral analysis
analysis author	Roman Sauer
publication (of analysis)	Gassner et al. 2014, 218-19
petrographic mineralogical type	RVG01
sample taken	September 1996, by Maria Trapichler, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University
sample no	M 2/92

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Distribution of fabric type
“VEL-G-2”

Velia Velia Velia Velia Velia Velia Velia Velia Velia Velia Velia Velia

production sampling

Representative sample for
“VEL-G-2”

M 2/91

There are 5 more samples assigned to fabric type
“VEL-G-2”.

The Black Glaze Ware of Velia: Introduction Although no kilns had been found up to now, we can assume that Black Glaze ware was produced at Velia on the basis of few misfired pieces at least for the Late Classic to the Early Hellenistic periods. The best evidence is a staple of baked skyphoi or cup skyphoi published by R. Maffetone,?

Pottery production at Velia: Ceramic raw materials and archaeometric analyses: Introduction The local production of pottery, bricks and tiles has been assumed for Velia as well as for many other colonies in Magna Graecia at a rather early stage of research, but the characteristics and the development of this production remained unknown for a long time?

Fabrics of Velia: The classification of fabrics is based upon the macroscopic analysis of all diagnostic fragments of the material of studied contexts of the Austrian excavations. These comprise a context of the Early Classical period in the Lower town of Velia...

Inclusions

Context Data