CdE-A-5

fabric description

object data

archaeometry

fabric type	CdE-A-5
ware	Transport Amphorae
supposed site of production	Circulo del Estrecho
certainty of arguments	archaeological: quite certain
visual excamination of fresh break	colour light red and light brown, texture middle fine and compact, numerous small and few large inclusions: white, grey, red, voids
colour of freshly broken section (munsell)	light red 2.5 YR 6/8, peripheral area reddish grey 5 YR 5/2
texture of freshly broken surface	irregular
hardness	hard
porosity	5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-1.3 (vughy), 1.6 (channel)
inclusions	20%, length: <0.04-1.6
sorting	bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt
	Inclusions
quartz	infrequent, well rounded - subrounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - subelongate, grey, clear, white, 0.06-1.0
mica	infrequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, dark, <0.04-0.1
calciumcarbonate	riddled with, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - very elongate, yellowish white, white, <0.04-1.6
carbonate pseudomorphoses	riddled with, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, yellowish white, white, <0.04-0.4
reddish inclusions	infrequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, red, reddish brown, <0.04-0.8
black inclusions	frequent, rounded - subrounded, subangular, spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, grey, <0.04-0.8
foraminifera	infrequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, white, 0.2-0.4

vessel form type	Amphora SG-T-11.2.1.0
fragmentation	shoulder, central part of body, handle
chronology of object	Punic-Middle Punic 409 B.C.E.?
drawing
	Context Data
site of discovery	Himera Necropoli W
registration code of context	Necropoli W, W 1107
registration code of object	W 1107

sample taken	May 2013, by Babette Bechtold, Soprintendenza Beni Culturali e Ambientali di Palermo
sample no	M 179/105 representative sample for CdE-A-5

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Distribution of fabric type
“CdE-A-5”

Himera Carthage

production sampling

Representative sample for
“CdE-A-5”

M 179/105

There are 1 more sample assigned to fabric type
“CdE-A-5”.

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Inclusions

Context Data