| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
fabric type |
VEL-C-3
|
ware |
Coarse Wares |
supposed site of production |
Velia |
certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: quite certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
reddish yellow, granular; some larger red inclusions, many fine white inclusions |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
5YR6/6 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
3%; void form: channel; void length: 0.08-0.4 |
inclusions |
8%, length: 0.12-2 |
sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
|
Inclusions
|
quartz |
very frequent, angular, spherical, white; clear, 0.12-0.6 |
mica |
infrequent, angular, spherical, white, 0.02-0.04 |
reddish inclusions |
infrequent, angular, spherical, dark red, 0.08-0.6 |
grey inclusions |
infrequent, angular, spherical - subelongate, dark grey, 0.4-0.25 |
brown inclusions |
singular, rounded, subspherical, light brown, 0.3 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
vessel form type |
Chytra deep cooking pot with short flat rim |
fragmentation |
rim |
surface description |
coarse |
publication |
Gassner et al. 2014, 224 |
|
Context Data
|
site of discovery |
Velia Crossroad |
registration code of context |
25/90 |
registration code of object |
25/90-35 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
applied method for sample analysis |
thin section and heavy mineral analysis |
analysis author |
Roman Sauer |
publication (of analysis) |
Gassner et al. 2014, 234-37 |
petrographic mineralogical type |
RVGK01 |
sample taken |
October 1991, by Verena Gassner, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University |
sample no |
M 3/14 |
status of sample |
sample surplus, thin section and heavy mineral analysis surplus available |
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