CAL-A-6

fabric description

object data

archaeometry

fabric type	CAL-A-6
fabric previously published as	Impasto 21
ware	Transport Amphorae
supposed site of production	Calabria
certainty of arguments	archaeological: quite certain
visual excamination of fresh break	colour light reddish brown, texture fine and compact, numerous fine to infrequent large inclusions: grey, white, red, mica
colour of freshly broken section (munsell)	pink - reddish yellow 5 YR 7/4-7/6
texture of freshly broken surface	irregular
hardness	hard
porosity	3.5%; void form: vughy (0.04-1.2), channel (0.16-1.12); void length: 0.04-1.2
inclusions	7.5%, length: <0.04-1.12
sorting	bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt
	Inclusions
quartz	frequent, rounded, subangular - angular, spherical - subspherical, elongate, grey, white, clear, reddish, 0.06-1.12
mica	infrequent, spherical, angular, elongate, white, <0.04-0.04
carbonate pseudomorphoses	riddled with, spherical - subspherical, yellowish white, 0.04-0.06
reddish inclusions	very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, <0.04-0.68
black inclusions	infrequent, spherical - subspherical, elongate, very elongate, black, <0.04-0.44
foraminifera	frequent, well rounded, rounded, very spherical, subspherical, yellowish, 0.08-0.32

vessel form type	Amphora Gassner 1
fragmentation	rim
dimensions	diameter: not id.cm (rim)
chronology of object	Greek-Archaic 580-540 B.C.E.
publication	Bechtold 2013a, cat. 139; Bechtold 2013c, fig. 8,3 pl. 1,7.
drawing
	Context Data
site of discovery	Pantelleria Acropolis Survey
registration code of context	PN 04 ACR UT 115.1
registration code of object	PN 04 ACR UT 115.1-18

sample taken	2009, by Babette Bechtold, Institute of Classical Archaeology, University of Tübingen
sample no	M 119/171

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Distribution of fabric type
“CAL-A-6”

Sybaris Ischia Sybaris Buthrotum Buthrotum Pantelleria Pantelleria Pantelleria Pantelleria Pantelleria

production sampling

Representative sample for
“CAL-A-6”

M 45/1

There are 12 more samples assigned to fabric type
“CAL-A-6”.

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Western Greek and Sardinian Amphorae from Punic Sites in the Southern Mediterranean: New Evidence from Fabric Analysis for Economic Interaction in the Carthaginian Sphere of Influence (6th-3rd century B.C.E.)

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Inclusions

Context Data