MALTA-C-2

fabric description

object data

archaeometry

fabric type	MALTA-C-2
fabric previously published as	F. 1
ware	Coarse Wares Local Plain
supposed site of production	Malta
certainty of arguments	archaeological: quite certain
visual excamination of fresh break	colour reddish yellow, core reddish gray, texture coarse and compact, numerous fine to large inclusions: white, yellowish, red, black, voids
colour of freshly broken section (munsell)	light red 2.5 YR 6/8, core reddish grey 5 YR 5/2
texture of freshly broken surface	irregular
hardness	hard
porosity	5%; void form: vughy (0.04-2.4), channel (0.06-1.0); void length: 0.04-2.4
inclusions	17.5%, length: <0.04-1.8
sorting	unsorted
	Inclusions
mica	very frequent, angular, elongate, spherical, white, <0.04-0.04
calciumcarbonate	riddled with, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, yellowish, white, <0.04-1.5
carbonate pseudomorphoses	riddled with, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, very elongate, yellowish, white, 0.04-1.8
reddish inclusions	very frequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, red, reddish brown, <0.04-0.6
black inclusions	infrequent, rounded, subspherical, elongate, black, 0.04-0.16
brown inclusions	frequent, rounded, spherical, yellowish brown, 0.15-0.3
foraminifera	infrequent, well rounded, rounded, very spherical, subspherical, very elongate, white, yellowish, grey, 0.12-0.4
more inclusions2	very frequent, subrounded, subangular - very angular, subspherical, yellowish brown, yellowish white, reddish, grey, 0.28-1.0

vessel form type	Closed Vessel
fragmentation	base
surface description	slipped slip pink, 5 YR 8/3, interior reddish yellow 5 YR 7/6
drawing
	Context Data
site of discovery	Malta Zejtun
registration code of context	ZTN 06/551
registration code of object	ZTN 06/551/5,
chronology of context	400-300 B.C.E.

sample taken	2009, by Babette Bechtold, Department of Classics and Archaeology, University of Malta
sample no	M 114/5

Cite this page as: FACEM - http://facem.at/m-114-5

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