MALTA-C-2

fabric description

object data

archaeometry

fabric type	MALTA-C-2
ware	Coarse Wares Local Plain
supposed site of production	Malta
certainty of arguments	archaeological: quite certain
visual excamination of fresh break	colour red, core grey, texture coarse and compact, numerous fine to large inclusions: white, yellow, black, voids
colour of freshly broken section (munsell)	light red 2.5 YR 6/6, core grey 2.5 YR 5/0
texture of freshly broken surface	irregular
hardness	hard
porosity	7.5%; void form: vughy (0.04-6.8), channel (0.06-1.8); void length: 0.04-6.8
inclusions	12.5%, length: <0.04-1.4
sorting	unsorted
	Inclusions
mica	very frequent, angular, elongate, spherical, white, <0.04-0.06
calciumcarbonate	very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, white, yellowish, <0.04-0.6
carbonate pseudomorphoses	infrequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, white, yellowish, 0.08-1.3
reddish inclusions	very frequent, well rounded - rounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, red, reddish brown, <0.04-0.6
black inclusions	very frequent, well rounded - rounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, <0.04-0.2
foraminifera	frequent, well rounded, very spherical, subspherical, very elongate, white, reddish, 0.16-0.4
more inclusions2	frequent, angular - very angular, subrounded, subspherical, subelongate, brownish, reddish, yellowish, grey, 0.08-1.4

vessel form type	Dolium
fragmentation	rim
surface description	slipped exterior: white slip 2.5Y8/2, interior: reddish yellow 5YR7/6-7/8
drawing
	Context Data
site of discovery	Malta Zejtun
registration code of context	ZTN 06/1504
registration code of object	ZTN 06/1504-2
chronology of context	400-300 B.C.E.
changes of previously edited data	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 114/7

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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