CAL-A-6

fabric description

object data

archaeometry

fabric type	CAL-A-6
fabric previously published as	Impasto 6
ware	Transport Amphorae CAL-A-6, close to
supposed site of production	Calabria
certainty of arguments	archaeological: quite certain
visual excamination of fresh break	colour light red, texture fine and compact, numerous fine and few large inclusions: grey, white, red, mical, voids
colour of freshly broken section (munsell)	light red 2.5 YR 6/6
texture of freshly broken surface	irregular
hardness	hard
porosity	2.5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0.08-1.8
inclusions	13.5%, length: <0.04-0.6
sorting	bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt
	Inclusions
quartz	frequent, rounded - angular, subspherical, subelongate, elongate, white, grey, clear, 0.06-0.6
mica	frequent, spherical, angular, elongate, white, dark, <0.04-0.08
calciumcarbonate	frequent, spherical - subspherical, yellowish white, <0.04-0.04
carbonate pseudomorphoses	singular, rounded, subspherical, yellowish white, 0.12-0.28
reddish inclusions	frequent, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, very elongate, reddish brown, <0.04-0.12
black inclusions	infrequent, spherical, elongate, black, <0.04-0.16

vessel form type	Amphora Gassner 5
fragmentation	rim
dimensions	diameter: 15cm (rim)
chronology of object	Greek-Classic 420-380 B.C.E.
publication	Bechtold 2015a, cat. 10; Bechtold 2013c, fig. 8,4.
drawing
	Context Data
site of discovery	Pantelleria Acropolis Excavation
registration code of context	PN 06 ACR I 2090
registration code of object	PN 06 ACR I 2090-14
chronology of context	260-240 B.C.E.

sample taken	2008, by Babette Bechtold, Institute of Classical Archaeology, University of Tübingen
sample no	M 119/233

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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