| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| fabric type |
NA-REG-CBM-2
|
| ware |
Ceramic Building Materials |
| supposed site of production |
Naples region |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
pink, granular; large gray and scattered large light red and brown particles, micacious |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
7.5YR7/4 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
3.5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0,12-1,2 |
| inclusions |
13%, length: 0,12-2 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
infrequent, angular, spherical, white, 0.08-0,2 |
|
mica |
infrequent |
|
reddish inclusions |
infrequent, angular, subelongate, rust coloured, 0,2-2 |
|
black inclusions |
frequent |
|
grey inclusions |
frequent, angular, spherical, dark grey, 0,2-0,6 |
|
brown inclusions |
frequent, rounded, subelongate, yellowish brown, 0,2-1,6 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| vessel form type |
Tile |
| fragmentation |
fragmentation not specified |
| surface description |
coarse |
| |
Context Data
|
| site of discovery |
Velia
Theatre |
| registration code of context |
1811/94 |
| registration code of object |
1811/94 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| applied method for sample analysis |
thin section and heavy mineral analysis |
| analysis author |
Roman Sauer |
| petrographic mineralogical type |
RVZ08 |
| sample taken |
July 1996, by Maria Trapichler, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University |
| sample no |
M 8/26 |
| status of sample |
sample surplus, thin section and heavy mineral analysis surplus available |
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