| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| fabric type |
IG-PUN-A-1
|
| fabric previously published as |
A 28 |
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: not certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
reddish yellow, granular; few fine to medium-sized white and dark inclusions |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
7.5YR7/6 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
10%; void form: vughy; void length: 0,04-0,2 |
| inclusions |
15%, length: 0,04-1 |
| sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
very frequent, angular, subelongate, white; clear, 0.2-1 |
|
mica |
frequent |
|
reddish inclusions |
frequent, rounded, spherical, red, 0,04-0,6 |
|
black inclusions |
singular, rounded, subelongate, black |
|
foraminifera |
frequent, rounded, spherical, white, 0,2 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| vessel form type |
Amphora
Ramon T. 1.4.4.1 |
| fragmentation |
rim |
| dimensions |
diameter: 14cm (rim) |
| surface description |
coarse |
| chronology of object |
Greek-Classic |
| publication |
Gassner 2003, cat. no. Iib.91, pl. 39 |
| |
Context Data
|
| site of discovery |
Velia
Late Archaic mudbrick houses beneath Insula II, trench 1/88 |
| registration code of context |
25/88 |
| registration code of object |
25/88-13 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| applied method for sample analysis |
thin section and heavy mineral analysis |
| analysis author |
Roman Sauer |
| petrographic mineralogical type |
RVA013 |
| sample taken |
July 1994, by Verena Gassner, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University |
| sample no |
M 6/76
 representative sample for IG-PUN-A-1 |
| status of sample |
no remains |
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