| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| fabric type |
CAL-A-10
|
| fabric previously published as |
A 6 |
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Calabria |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
very pale brown, granular; fine gray inclusions, much dark mica |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
10YR7/3 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
1%; void form: channel; void length: 0,2 |
| inclusions |
7,5%, length: 0,08-0,4 |
| sorting |
poorly sorted silt |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
frequent, angular, subelongate, clear, 0.2-1,2 |
|
mica |
frequent, 0.08-0.4 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
infrequent, 0.04-0.24 |
|
reddish inclusions |
frequent, rounded, spherical, red, 0,2 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| vessel form type |
Amphora
Western Greek amphora, toe |
| fragmentation |
base |
| surface description |
smoothed |
| chronology of object |
Greek-Classic |
| publication |
Gassner 2003, cat. no. IIa.221, pl. 25 |
| |
Context Data
|
| site of discovery |
Velia
Late Archaic mudbrick houses beneath Insula II, trench 4/90 |
| registration code of context |
410/90 |
| registration code of object |
410/90-43 |
| chronology of context |
Gassner 2003, phase Iia |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| applied method for sample analysis |
thin section and heavy mineral analysis |
| analysis author |
Roman Sauer |
| petrographic mineralogical type |
RVA010a |
| sample taken |
July 1994, by Verena Gassner, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University |
| sample no |
M 6/31
 representative sample for CAL-A-10 |
| status of sample |
thin section surplus available |
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