| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| fabric type |
CAL-C-2
|
| fabric previously published as |
GK 5 |
| ware |
Coarse Wares |
| supposed site of production |
Calabria |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: not certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
pink, irregular; white, gray and red inclusions, some mica |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
7.5YR7/4 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
7.5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0,08-0,4 |
| inclusions |
10%, length: 0,2-1,2 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
very frequent, angular, subelongate, white; clear, 0.28-1,2 |
|
mica |
frequent |
|
calciumcarbonate |
frequent, rounded, spherical, white, 0.4 |
|
reddish inclusions |
frequent, rrounded, spherical, red, 0,2-0,8 |
|
foraminifera |
frequent, rounded, spherical, white, 0.2-0.4 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| vessel form type |
Mortar
Gassner 2003, "Mortarium mit Hängelippe" |
| fragmentation |
rim |
| dimensions |
diameter: 31cm (rim) |
| surface description |
coarse |
| publication |
Gassner 2003, cat. no. IIa.187, pl. 23; for reference sample GK 5, see Gassner 2003, 350 Farbtafel 4 |
| |
Context Data
|
| site of discovery |
Velia
Late Archaic mudbrick houses beneath Insula II, trench 10-2/88 |
| registration code of context |
30/88 |
| registration code of object |
30/88-9 |
| 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 |
RVGK04 |
| sample taken |
1991, by Verena Gassner, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University |
| sample no |
M 3/58
 representative sample for CAL-C-2 |
| status of sample |
sample surplus, thin section and heavy mineral analysis surplus available |
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