| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | petrography | | |
| fabric type |
HIM-A-1
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Himera |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: quite certain, archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
Compact clay of brownish-pinkish colour with whitish visible inclusions of small size and sporadic white-greyish of big size |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
7.5 YR 6/4 and 5 YR 6/6 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
void form: Vughy; Holes; Chamber (some); void length: 0.04-06-0.52 |
| inclusions |
length: 0.04-0.83-87 |
| sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
infrequent, rounded; subangular, very spherical; subspherical; spherical, greyish-transparent, 0,04-0,16-18 |
|
mica |
frequent, very angular, subspherical, shiny, 0,04-2-0,06-08 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
infrequent, subrounded; subangular, subspherical; spherical, white (and some cristalyzed), 0,16-0,83-87 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
very frequent, well rounded; rounded; subrounded, very spherical; subspherical, yellowish, 0,04-0,40 |
|
reddish inclusions |
rare, rounded, spherical, red, /-0,05 (media) |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | petrography | | |
| vessel form type |
Amphora
Western Greek, Gassner rim 3 |
| fragmentation |
profile |
| dimensions |
diameter: 9.2cm (rim), 3.3 (peg)cm (bottom); height: 48cm |
| surface description |
slipped
pinkish slip 7.5 YR 8/3 |
| chronology of object |
Greek-Archaic-Late Archaic
510-475 BC |
| publication |
Bechtold et al. 2019, 7-8, fig. 5,1; Montana et al. 2020, fig. 3,A-B |
| drawing |
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| |
Context Data
|
| site of discovery |
Himera
Necropoli Ovest |
| registration code of context |
W373 |
| registration code of object |
W373 - HA10242 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | petrography | | |
| applied method for sample analysis |
thin section |
| analysis author |
Montana/Randazzo |
| sample taken |
February 2018, by Babette Bechtold, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University |
| sample no |
M 179/158
 representative sample for HIM-A-1 |
| status of sample |
whole sample available |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | petrography | | |
| sample number |
M 179/158 |
| inventory number |
W373 HA10242 |
| analysis author |
Giuseppe Montana - Luciana Randazzo |
| email |
giuseppe.montana@unipa.it; luciana.randazzo@unical.it |
| institution |
University of Palermo - Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e del Mare (DiSTeM); University of Calabria Dipartimento di Biologia, Ecologia e Scienze della Terra (DiBEST):
|
| |
Inclusions Microstructure
|
| distribution |
moderately homogeneous |
| packing |
medium (10-20%) |
| size |
prevalent:
very fine (0.04-0.1mm)
common:
fine (0.1-0.2mm), medium (0.2-0.5mm)
sporadic:
coarse (0.5-2mm)
|
| roundness |
angular |
| sorting |
scarce-serial |
| maximum grain size |
0.8 |
| |
Mineral Inclusions
|
| prevalent |
Monocrystalline Quartz |
| common |
Polycrystalline Quartz, Orthoclase |
| sporadic |
Plagioclase, Muscovite |
| |
Rock Fragments
|
| rare |
Magmatic (plutonic) (Granitoid) |
| |
Newly Formed Phases
|
| common |
secondary calcite |
| |
Other Compositional & Textural Features
|
| sporadic |
Microfossils, Micritic Clots |
| quartz grain prevailing roundness |
angular |
| |
Coating / Slipping
|
| thickness |
|
| conservation status |
|
| |
Texture
|
| homogenity |
moderately homogeneous patchy: sporadic |
| optical activity |
inactive |
| color |
|
| degree of sintering |
well sintered |
| |
Porosity
|
| abundance of voids/pores |
medium (10-30%) |
| orientation |
partial |
| prevalent |
tiny (<0.01mm), small (0.01-0.1mm), medium (0.1-1mm), irregular, vesicular, cast |
| |
Composition
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| clay composition |
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| |
Interpretation
|
| estimated firing temperature |
well fired |
| modelling of raw clay |
use of wheel |
| refinement of raw clay |
acceptable |
| refinement of temper |
sieved natural sand |
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