| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| fabric type |
CAL-CBM-2
|
| ware |
Ceramic Building Materials |
| supposed site of production |
Calabria |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
pink, irregular; medium-sized dark red and white inclusions, few mica |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
5YR 8/4 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
2.5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0,08-0,2 |
| inclusions |
10%, length: 0,04-1,2 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
riddled with, angular, spherical, clear; white, 0.04-0,08 |
|
mica |
frequent, 0.04-0.25 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
infrequent, well rounded, subspherical, white, 0.6-0.8 |
|
reddish inclusions |
infrequent, angular, subelongate, dark brown, 0,4-0,6 |
|
black inclusions |
infrequent, angular, spherical, black |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| vessel form type |
Tile |
| fragmentation |
fragmentation not specified |
| surface description |
coarse |
| |
Context Data
|
| site of discovery |
Velia
Late Archaic mudbrick houses beneath Insula II |
| registration code of context |
938/92 |
| registration code of object |
938/92 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| applied method for sample analysis |
thin section and heavy mineral analysis |
| analysis author |
Roman Sauer |
| petrographic mineralogical type |
RVZ04 |
| sample taken |
November 1993, by Verena Gassner, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University |
| sample no |
M 8/11
 representative sample for CAL-CBM-2 |
| status of sample |
sample surplus, thin section and heavy mineral analysis surplus available |
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