| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| fabric type |
NA-REG-CBM-3
|
| ware |
Ceramic Building Materials |
| supposed site of production |
Naples region |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
pink, granular; numerous middle-sized to very large brown particles,many fine to middle-sized gray inclusions, few fine to large white particles |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
7.5YR8/4 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
3%; void form: vughy; void length: 0,12-0,4 |
| inclusions |
8%, length: 0,2-4 |
| sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
infrequent, angular, subelongate, white, 0.2-1,6 |
|
mica |
infrequent |
|
reddish inclusions |
singular, angular, spherical, rust coloured, 0,2-0,6 |
|
grey inclusions |
very frequent, rounded, spherical, light grey, 0,8-4 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| vessel form type |
Tile (cross tile)
stroter |
| fragmentation |
fragmentation not specified |
| surface description |
smoothed |
| |
Context Data
|
| site of discovery |
Velia
Theatre |
| registration code of context |
804/93 |
| registration code of object |
804/93 |
| | 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 8/31 |
| status of sample |
sample surplus, thin section and heavy mineral analysis surplus available |
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