| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
fabric type |
COR-A-4
|
ware |
Transport Amphorae |
supposed site of production |
Corinth |
certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: not certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
pink, granular; some middle-sized to large white, reddish brown and dark brown inclusions |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
7.5YR7/3 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
10%; void form: vughy; void length: 0,2 |
inclusions |
9%, length: 1,4 |
sorting |
unsorted |
|
Inclusions
|
mica |
infrequent, angular, spherical, white, 0,02 |
calciumcarbonate |
infrequent, rounded, spherical - subelongate, white, 0,2-3 |
reddish inclusions |
infrequent, angular, spherical - elongate, reddish brown, 0,08-6 |
grey inclusions |
frequent, rounded, spherical - subspherical, dark grey, 0,04-1,5 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
vessel form type |
Amphora Corinthian A' |
fragmentation |
body |
surface description |
coarse |
chronology of object |
Greek-Classic |
|
Context Data
|
site of discovery |
Velia Theater, trench 1/93 |
registration code of context |
196/93 |
registration code of object |
196/93-2 |
chronology of context |
Theatre-theatron-phase |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
applied method for sample analysis |
thin section and heavy mineral analysis |
analysis author |
Roman Sauer |
petrographic mineralogical type |
RVA04C |
sample taken |
November 1993, by Verena Gassner, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University |
sample no |
M 6/14 representative sample for COR-A-4 |
status of sample |
thin section and heavy mineral analysis surplus available |
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