| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| fabric type |
CHI-A-2
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Chios |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
reddish yellow, granular; numerous fine, few large white incluisons |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
5YR6/6 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
6%; void form: channel; void length: 0,08-0,8 |
| inclusions |
6%, length: 0,08-2 |
| sorting |
bimodal: well sorted sand in well sorted silt |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
infrequent, angular, spherical, clear, 0.08-0,4 |
|
mica |
very frequent, angular, spherical, white, 0,04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
frequent, rounded, spherical - subelongate, white, 0.12-0,5 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
riddled with, well rounded, spherical, white, 0,04 |
|
reddish inclusions |
infrequent, rounded, spherical - subspherical, rust coloured, 0,08-0,2 |
|
black inclusions |
infrequent, rounded, spherical, black, 0,04-0,08 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| vessel form type |
Amphora
Chian amphora |
| fragmentation |
rim |
| surface description |
coarse
coarse |
| chronology of object |
Greek-Classic |
| |
Context Data
|
| site of discovery |
Velia
Late Archaic mudbrick houses beneath Insula II, trench 4/90 |
| registration code of context |
432/90 |
| registration code of object |
432/90 - 32 |
| 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 |
RVA006A |
| sample taken |
September 1996, by Verena Gassner, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University |
| sample no |
M 6/107 |
| status of sample |
sample surplus, thin section and heavy mineral analysis surplus available |
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