| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
fabric type |
CAL-A-1
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fabric previously published as |
Impasto 7 |
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, few fine inclusions: white, grey, red, voids |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
pimk 7.5 YR 8/3 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
regular |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
3.0%; void form: vughy (0.04-1.6), channel (0.16-1.4); void length: 0.04-1.6 |
inclusions |
10%, length: <0.04-0.48 |
sorting |
bimodal: well sorted sand in well sorted silt |
|
Inclusions
|
quartz |
frequent, well rounded, subangular - angular, spherical - subspherical, elongate, white, grey, clear, reddish, 0.04-0.48 |
mica |
infrequent, spherical, white, <0.04-0.04 |
reddish inclusions |
riddled with, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, very elongate, reddish brown, <0.04-0.16 |
black inclusions |
frequent, rounded, spherical - subspherical, subelongate, elongate, black, <0.04-0.12 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
vessel form type |
Amphora MGS III/IV/Corinthian B |
fragmentation |
rim |
dimensions |
diameter: 20cm (rim) |
chronology of object |
Greek-Hellenistic 350-290 B.C.E. |
publication |
Bechtold 2013a, cat. 100; Bechtold 2013c, fig. 7,1. |
drawing |
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Context Data
|
site of discovery |
Pantelleria Acropolis Excavation |
registration code of context |
PN 09 ACR II 4329 |
registration code of object |
PN 09 ACR II 4329-4 |
chronology of context |
Early Imperial |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
sample taken |
2010, by Babette Bechtold, Institute of Classical Archaeology, University of Tübingen |
sample no |
M 119/190 |
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