| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
fabric type |
CAL-A-1
|
fabric previously published as |
Impasto 5 |
ware |
Transport Amphorae |
supposed site of production |
Calabria |
certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
colour very pale brown, texture fine and compact, numerous fine and few large inclusions: grey, white, red, mica, voids |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
pink - very pale brown 7.5 YR 7/4, 10 YR 7/4 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
regular |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0.04-1.2 |
inclusions |
10%, length: <0.04-1.2 |
sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
|
Inclusions
|
quartz |
very frequent, rounded, subangular - angular, spherical - subspherical, elongate - subelongate, grey, white, clear, reddish, 0.04-1.2 |
mica |
infrequent, spherical, angular, elongate, white, dark, <0.04-0.6 |
reddish inclusions |
very frequent, rounded, spherical - subspherical, elongate - subelongate, very elongate, reddish brown, <0.04-0.48 |
black inclusions |
frequent, rounded, spherical - subspherical, very elongate, black, 0.04-0.48 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
vessel form type |
Amphora Gassner 3 |
fragmentation |
rim |
dimensions |
diameter: 13cm (rim) |
chronology of object |
Greek-Classic 510-450 B.C.E. |
publication |
Bechtold 2013a, cat. 111; Bechtold 2013c, fig. 5,4. |
drawing |
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Context Data
|
site of discovery |
Pantelleria Acropolis Survey |
registration code of context |
PN 04 ACR RIC UT 84.1 |
registration code of object |
PN 04 ACR RIC UT 84.1-2 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
sample taken |
2011, by Babette Bechtold, Institute of Classical Archaeology, University of Tübingen |
sample no |
M 119/157 |
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