BNAP-C-12

fabric description

object data

archaeometry

fabric type	BNAP-C-12
ware	Coarse Wares
supposed site of production	Bay of Naples
certainty of arguments	archaeological: quite certain
visual excamination of fresh break	light reddish brown, core: reddish yellow; smooth; few fine to mid-sized white and some midsized to large dark inclusions, some mica
colour of freshly broken section (munsell)	5YR6/4, core: 5YR6/6
texture of freshly broken surface	smooth
hardness	hard
porosity	5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0,025-1
inclusions	10%, length: 0,01-1,2
sorting	unsorted
	Inclusions
quartz	infrequent, angular, spherical subelongate, clear, 0,2-2
mica	frequent, angular, spherical - very elongate, white; dark, 0,01-0,12
calciumcarbonate	infrequent, rounded, spherical, yellowish white, 0,05-0,5
black iron oxide concretions	frequent, rounded, spherical, black, 0,025-0,3
black inclusions	infrequent, angular, spherical - subspherical, black; glassy, 0,25-0,75
grey inclusions	infrequent, subrounded - subangular, subelongate - subspherical, light grey, 0,5-1,1
brown inclusions	infrequent, angular, spherical - subspherical, dark brown; glassy, 0,12-0,75
white inclusions	singular, angular, subelongate, white, 0,75
foraminifera	infrequent, well rounded, very spherical, white, 0,05-0,15

vessel form type	Closed Vessel olla?
fragmentation	base – flat base
surface description	coarse
chronology of object	Second quarter 4th/early 3rd century B.C.
publication	Dewailly, Munzi 2011; Brun, Munzi, Leguilloux, and Cavassa (in print)
	Context Data
site of discovery	Cuma Cuma 2006, santuario periurbano settentrionale
registration code of object	700137-304
chronology of context	Second quarter 4th/early 3rd century B.C.

publication (of analysis)	CUMN 21
sample taken	May 2010, by Priscilla Munzi, Centre Jean Bérard
sample no	M 145/17 representative sample for BNAP-C-12
status of sample	sample surplus available

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Distribution of fabric type
“BNAP-C-12”

Cuma Cuma Bay of Naples Bay of Naples

production sampling

Representative sample for
“BNAP-C-12”

M 145/17

There are 1 more sample assigned to fabric type
“BNAP-C-12”.

Pottery Production in the Bay of Naples ? Problems, History of Research and Current Strategies: For more than a thousand years the Bay of Naples was not only one of the most important and dynamic areas of the antique Mediterranean, but also a region well known for its production of pottery?

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Inclusions

Context Data