| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
fabric type |
ION-ADR-A-1
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fabric previously published as |
Impasto 7 |
ware |
Transport Amphorae |
supposed site of production |
Ionic-Adriatic region |
certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
colour very pale brown, texture fine and compact, numerous fine to infrequent large inclusions: grey, red, voids |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
pink 7.5 YR 7/3-7/4 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
3.5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0.04-0.8 |
inclusions |
5%, length: <0.04-0.4 |
sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
|
Inclusions
|
quartz |
riddled with, rounded - angular, spherical - subspherical, elongate, grey, yellowish, clear, 0.04-0.32 |
mica |
infrequent, spherical, white, <0.04-0.04 |
calciumcarbonate |
frequent, spherical, subelongate, elongate, white, 0.04-0.28 |
reddish inclusions |
riddled with, spherical - subspherical, elongate, very elongate, red, reddish brown, <0.04-0.2 |
black inclusions |
frequent, subrounded, spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, <0.04-0.32 |
foraminifera |
singular, sherical, elongate, white, 0.12-0.4 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
vessel form type |
Amphora Gassner 5 |
fragmentation |
rim |
dimensions |
diameter: 12cm (rim) |
chronology of object |
350-300 B.C.E. |
publication |
Bechtold 2013a, cat. 99; Bechtold 2015a, cat. 2; Bechtold 2013c, fig. 11,12. |
drawing |
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Context Data
|
site of discovery |
Pantelleria Acropolis Excavation |
registration code of context |
PN 06 ACR I 2082 |
registration code of object |
PN 06 ACR I 2082-50 |
chronology of context |
2nd century B.C.E. |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
sample taken |
2008, by Babette Bechtold, Institute of Classical Archaeology, University of Tübingen |
sample no |
M 119/189 |
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