| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| fabric type |
CAL-C-2
|
| ware |
Coarse Wares |
| supposed site of production |
Calabria |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
pink, granular; some fine white inclusions |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
7.5YR7/4 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
4%; void form: vughy; void length: 0,04-1,6 |
| inclusions |
5%, length: 0,12-0,6 |
| sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
very frequent, angular, spherical, 0.12-0,6 |
|
mica |
frequent |
|
grey inclusions |
infrequent, rounded, elongate, metallic grey, 0,2-0,44 |
|
foraminifera |
frequent, rounded, spherical, white, 0.2-0.4 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| fragmentation |
body |
| surface description |
coarse |
| |
Context Data
|
| site of discovery |
Velia
Late Archaic mudbrick houses beneath Insula II, trench 35/93 |
| registration code of context |
3046/93 |
| registration code of object |
3046/93 |
| chronology of context |
Gassner 2003, phase IIa |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| applied method for sample analysis |
thin section and heavy mineral analysis |
| analysis author |
Roman Sauer |
| petrographic mineralogical type |
RVGK03 |
| sample taken |
July 1996, by Verena Gassner, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University |
| sample no |
M 3/85 |
| status of sample |
thin section surplus available |
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