PAE-A-3

fabric description

object data

archaeometry

fabric type	PAE-A-3
fabric previously published as	F. 45
ware	Transport Amphorae
supposed site of production	Paestum
certainty of arguments	archaeological: quite certain
visual excamination of fresh break	colour light yellowish red, texture coarse and compact, numerous fine to large inclusions: white, black, reddish, mica, voids
colour of freshly broken section (munsell)	reddish yellow - yellowish red 2.5 YR 6/6-5/6
texture of freshly broken surface	granular
hardness	hard
porosity	7.5%; void form: vughy (0.04-0.76), channel (0.08-1.0); void length: 0.04-0.76
inclusions	25%, length: <0.04-2.6
sorting	bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt
	Inclusions
quartz	riddled with, well rounded - rounded, subangular - angular, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, grey, white, clear, 0.15-0.8
mica	frequent, spherical, angular, white, dark, <0.04-0.06
calciumcarbonate	infrequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, white, 0.04-0.12
carbonate pseudomorphoses	infrequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, white, 0.12-0.4
reddish inclusions	very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, elongate, reddish brown, <0.04-2.6
black inclusions	frequent, rounded, subangular, spherical - subspherical, subelongate, elongate, black, 0.08-1.08

vessel form type	Amphora MGS V/Gassner 10
fragmentation	rim
dimensions	diameter: 9cm (rim)
chronology of object	Greek-Hellenistic 230-180 B.C.E.
publication	Bechtold 2008b, 105, cat. 46, pl. 3,5; Bechtold 2013c, fig. 20,3.
drawing
	Context Data
site of discovery	Carthage Bir Messaouda
registration code of context	BM 00/1000
registration code of object	BM 00/11477
chronology of context	surface find

sample taken	2006, by Babette Bechtold, Department of Archaeology, University of Amsterdam/INP Tunis
sample no	M 92/18

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Distribution of fabric type
“PAE-A-3”

production sampling

Representative sample for
“PAE-A-3”

M 6/77

There are 16 more samples assigned to fabric type
“PAE-A-3”.

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Inclusions

Context Data