MALTA-C-2

fabric description

object data

archaeometry

fabric type	MALTA-C-2
fabric previously published as	MALTA-C-1
ware	Coarse Wares Local Plain
supposed site of production	Malta
certainty of arguments	archaeological: quite certain
visual excamination of fresh break	colour red, texture middle fine and compact, numerous fine and infrequent large inclusions: white, grey, black, red, voids
colour of freshly broken section (munsell)	light red 2.5 YR 6/8
texture of freshly broken surface	irregular
hardness	hard
porosity	6.5%; void form: vughy (0.04-0.8), channel (0.06-1.6); void length: 0.04-1.6
inclusions	15%, length: <0.04-1.6
sorting	unsorted
	Inclusions
quartz	singular, well rounded - subangular, angular, spherical - subspherical, elongate, white, clear, 0.08-1.3
mica	very frequent, angular, elongate, spherical, white, <0.04-0,1
calciumcarbonate	very frequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, yellowish, white, <0.04-0,6
carbonate pseudomorphoses	very frequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, yellowish white, 0.04-0.6
reddish inclusions	very frequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, red, reddish brown, <0.04-1.6
black inclusions	infrequent, rounded - subrounded, spherical - subspherical, black, 0.04-1.3
grey inclusions	singular, angular, subspherical, dark grey and white, 1.0
foraminifera	frequent, rounded, very spherical, subspherical, very elongate, white, greyish brown, 0.12-0.48
more inclusions2	very frequent, angular - very angular, subrounded, spherical - subspherical, subelongate, yellowish brown, yellowish white, reddish, 0.08-1.0

vessel form type	Carinated bowl
fragmentation	profile
surface description	slipped pink 7.5 YR 8/4
drawing
	Context Data
site of discovery	Malta Zejtun
registration code of context	ZTN 06/551
registration code of object	ZTN 06/551-4
chronology of context	400-300 B.C.E.
changes of previously edited data	The fabric attribution of the sample has been changed from MALTA-C-1 to MALTA-C-2.The fabric description of the fresh break has been substituted by a new one. The macrophotos of the present sample have been substituted by new ones.

sample taken	2009, by Babette Bechtold, Department of Classics and Archaeology, University of Malta
sample no	M 114/3

Cite this page as: FACEM - http://facem.at/m-114-3

Distribution of fabric type
“MALTA-C-2”

Malta Malta Malta Malta Malta Malta Malta Malta Malta Malta Malta Malta Malta Malta Malta Malta Malta Malta

production sampling

Representative sample for
“MALTA-C-2”

M 114/4

There are 8 more samples assigned to fabric type
“MALTA-C-2”.

Fabrics of Malta: Systematic fabric studies on Maltese pottery have a relatively short history. In 2000 B. Bruno and C. Capelli published a first paper dealing with three fabrics, identified, on the basis of archaeometric analyses, among two amphorae types of the Late Republican and Early Imperial period.

Anfore e ceramica acroma dall'avamposto militare di Monte Turcisi (CT). Uno studio preliminare sulle provenienze: Introduzione Il modesto rilievo collinare alto 303 m, denominato ?Monte Turcisi?, si trova al confine settentrionale della Piana di Catania e ricade oggi nel comune di Castel Di Iudica, in provincia della città etnea. Le strutture di interesse archeologico su di esso affiornati riguardano principalmente i resti relatvi ad una fortezza militare di epoca greca e di un eremo del XVII sec. d.C.

Inclusions

Context Data