| | 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 7.5 YR 7/4 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0.05-1.4 |
inclusions |
20%, length: <0.04-1.0 |
sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
|
Inclusions
|
quartz |
very frequent, well rounded - rounded, subangular - angular, spherical - subspherical, subelongate, elongate, white, grey, clear, reddish, 0.04-1.0 |
mica |
infrequent, spherical, elonagte, white, <0.04-0.04 |
reddish inclusions |
very frequent, rounded, spherical - subspherical, very elongate, reddish brown, <0.04-0.48 |
black inclusions |
infrequent, rounded, spherical - subspherical, very elongate, black, <0.04-0.68 |
foraminifera |
very frequent, well rounded, rounded, very spherical, subspherical, white, 0.06-0.48 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
vessel form type |
Amphora Dressel 2/4 |
fragmentation |
shoulder – diameter 30.0 |
chronology of object |
Roman-Imperial-Early Imperial 30 B.C.E.-100 C.E. |
publication |
Bechtold 2013c, fig. 7,3 |
drawing |
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Context Data
|
site of discovery |
Pantelleria Acropolis Excavation |
registration code of context |
PN 08 ACR IX 9393 |
registration code of object |
PN 08 ACR IX 9393-10 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
sample taken |
2011, by Babette Bechtold, Institute of Classical Archaeology, University of Tübingen |
sample no |
M 119/164 |
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