W-SARD-A-5

fabric description

object data

archaeometry

fabric type	W-SARD-A-5
fabric previously published as	F. 71
ware	Transport Amphorae
supposed site of production	Western Sardinia
certainty of arguments	archaeological: quite certain
visual excamination of fresh break	pale yellowish brown, texture middle fine and compact, few large inclusions: white, grey, voids
colour of freshly broken section (munsell)	exterior and interior reddish yellow 7.5 YR 8/6, core pink 7.5 YR 8/4
texture of freshly broken surface	regular
hardness	hard
porosity	2.5%; void form: vughy (0.08-0.8), channel (0.2); void length: 0.08-0.8
inclusions	5%, length: <0.04-1.8
sorting	unsorted
	Inclusions
quartz	infrequent, well rounded, very spherical - subspherical, subangular, white, grey, clear, yellowish, 0.04-1.0
mica	infrequent, spherical, elongate, white, <0.04-0.08
calciumcarbonate	very frequent, well rounded, very spherical, white, 0.04-0.2
carbonate pseudomorphoses	riddled with, well rounded, very spherical - subspherical, white, 0.06-0.2
reddish inclusions	riddled with, well rounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, very elongate, red, reddish brown, <0.04-0.96
black inclusions	infrequent, well rounded, very spherical, elongate, black, 0.06-0.2
foraminifera	singular, well rounded, spherical, subspherical, white, 0.2-0.48

vessel form type	Amphora Ramon T-4.1.1.3
fragmentation	rim
dimensions	diameter: 11cm (rim)
chronology of object	Punic-Middle Punic 450-350 B.C.E.
publication	Bechtold 2008b, 87, cat. 20, pl. 1,7; Bechtold 2013c, fig. 30,3 pl. 5,4.
drawing
	Context Data
site of discovery	Carthage Bir Messaouda
registration code of context	BM 00/1000
registration code of object	BM 00/11477

sample taken	2006, by Babette Bechtold, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History of Europe, Ghent University / INP Tunis
sample no	M 92/19

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Distribution of fabric type
“W-SARD-A-5”

Carthage Carthage Pantelleria Pantelleria Pantelleria

production sampling

Representative sample for
“W-SARD-A-5”

M 148/15

There are 5 more samples assigned to fabric type
“W-SARD-A-5”.

Other fabrics of western Sardinia: By contrast to W-SARD-A-1 to W-SARD-A-5,1 the following two fabrics W-SARD-A-6 and W-SARD-A-7 have not been defined on the basis of the analysis of the Riu Mannu and Terralba materials, but have been observed in samples from Carthage and Pantelleria.

Fabrics of Western Sardinia: Two fabrics have been defined by the Riu Mannu and Terralba projects on the basis of sys? tematically and intensively collected surface finds (1992?99 and 2003?04). Around 4,000 fragments from a dozen sites ...

Western Greek and Sardinian Amphorae from Punic Sites in the Southern Mediterranean: New Evidence from Fabric Analysis for Economic Interaction in the Carthaginian Sphere of Influence (6th-3rd century B.C.E.)

Inclusions

Context Data