VEL-CBM-4

fabric description

object data

archaeometry

fabric type	VEL-CBM-4
ware	Ceramic Building Materials
supposed site of production	Velia
certainty of arguments	archaeometric: certain
visual excamination of fresh break	reddish yellow, irregular; numerous fine to medium-sized white particles, many medium-sized to large grey inclusions
colour of freshly broken section (munsell)	5YR5/6
texture of freshly broken surface	irregular
hardness	very hard
porosity	12%; void form: vughy; void length: 0.08-2.4
inclusions	20%, length: 0.04-2.8
sorting	unsorted
	Inclusions
quartz	very frequent, angular, spherical subspherical, clear; white, 0.08-1.6
mica	infrequent, angular, spherical, white, 0.04
reddish inclusions	infrequent, rounded, spherical, rust coloured, 0.08-0.4
grey inclusions	frequent, angular, spherical - subspherical, grey, 0.2-1.6
brown inclusions	frequent, rounded, spherical, brown, 0.4-2.8

vessel form type	Tile (cross tile)
fragmentation	fragmentation not specified
surface description	coarse
	Context Data
site of discovery	Velia Late Archaic mudbrick houses beneath Insula II, room 10, trench 5/91, level 3
registration code of context	504/91
registration code of object	504/91
chronology of context	Gassner 2003, phase Ib

applied method for sample analysis	thin section and heavy mineral analysis
analysis author	Roman Sauer
petrographic mineralogical type	RVZ01
sample taken	September 1996, by Verena Gassner, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University
sample no	M 8/48 representative sample for VEL-CBM-4
status of sample	sample surplus, thin section and heavy mineral analysis surplus available

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Distribution of fabric type
“VEL-CBM-4”

Velia Velia Velia Velia Velia Velia

production sampling

Representative sample for
“VEL-CBM-4”

M 8/48

There are 2 more samples assigned to fabric type
“VEL-CBM-4”.

Ceramic Building Materials of Velia: Description of observed fabrics The five types distinguished by microscopic analysis are based upon one petrographical-mineralogical type (RVZ01) with its subtypes RVZ01a and RVZ01b. The fabrics show the char-acteristics generally observed with all Velinian fabrics, consisting of the lack of any car-bonatic inclusions or carbonate?pseudomorphoses,?

I mattoni bollati di Velia: I laterizi prodotti a Velia in età ellenistica, di largo impiego nell?edilizia pubblica, rappresentano una produzione peculiare per caratteristiche tipologiche e morfologiche e per sistema di bollatura?

Pottery production at Velia: Ceramic raw materials and archaeometric analyses: Introduction The local production of pottery, bricks and tiles has been assumed for Velia as well as for many other colonies in Magna Graecia at a rather early stage of research, but the characteristics and the development of this production remained unknown for a long time?

Fabrics of Velia: The classification of fabrics is based upon the macroscopic analysis of all diagnostic fragments of the material of studied contexts of the Austrian excavations. These comprise a context of the Early Classical period in the Lower town of Velia...

Inclusions

Context Data