| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
fabric type |
COR-A-1
|
fabric previously published as |
A 8 |
ware |
Transport Amphorae |
supposed site of production |
Corinth |
certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
pink, subconchoidal; large brown and gray inclusions, few fine white inclusions |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
7.5YR7/4 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
subconchoidal |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
2%; void form: channel; void length: 0,08-1,2 |
inclusions |
16%, length: 0,2-4 |
sorting |
unsorted |
|
Inclusions
|
mica |
infrequent, angular, spherical, white, 0,04 |
calciumcarbonate |
infrequent, rounded, spherical - subelongate, white, 0.2-1,2 |
reddish inclusions |
infrequent, rounded, spherical, rust coloured, 0,12-0,32 |
black inclusions |
frequent, angular, spherical, black, 0,12-1,5 |
brown inclusions |
very frequent, very angular, spherical - subelongate, rusty brown, 0,12-1,8 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
vessel form type |
Amphora handle fragment |
fragmentation |
handle |
surface description |
coarse |
chronology of object |
Greek-Classic |
publication |
Gassner 2003, cat. no. IIb.80, pl. 38 |
|
Context Data
|
site of discovery |
Velia Late Archaic mudbrick houses beneath Insula II, trench 10-2/88 |
registration code of context |
26/88 |
registration code of object |
26/88-14 |
chronology of context |
Gassner 2003, phase IIb |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
applied method for sample analysis |
thin section and heavy mineral analysis |
analysis author |
Roman Sauer |
petrographic mineralogical type |
RVA004a |
sample taken |
November 1993, by Verena Gassner, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University |
sample no |
M 6/6 representative sample for COR-A-1 |
status of sample |
sample surplus, thin section and heavy mineral analysis surplus available |
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