W-SARD-A-2

fabric description

object data

archaeometry

fabric type	W-SARD-A-2
fabric previously published as	Impasto 30
ware	Transport Amphorae
supposed site of production	Western Sardinia
certainty of arguments	archaeological: quite certain
visual excamination of fresh break	colour very pale brown, texture fine and compact, numerous fine inclusions: red, voids
colour of freshly broken section (munsell)	exterior and interior white, core pinkish white 7.5 YR 8/2
texture of freshly broken surface	regular
hardness	hard
porosity	3%; void form: vughy; void length: 0.06-0.52
inclusions	15%, length: <0.04-0.36
sorting	unsorted
	Inclusions
quartz	very frequent, well rounded - rounded, angular, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate - elongate, grey, white, clear, 0.04-0.36
mica	infrequent, spherical, angular, elongate, white, <0.04-0.08
calciumcarbonate	frequent, well rounded, very spherical, subelongate, white, 0.04-0.2
carbonate pseudomorphoses	infrequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, reddish brown, 0.08-0.2
reddish inclusions	riddled with, well rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, very elongate, red, reddish brown, <0.04-0.24
black inclusions	frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical , elongate, black, 0.04-0.12
foraminifera	singular, very spherical, white, 0.12-0.24
more inclusions2	infrequent, very spherical - subspherical, orange brown, 0.32

vessel form type	Amphora Ramon T-1.4.2.2/4.1.1.3
fragmentation	rim
dimensions	diameter: c. 11cm (rim)
surface description	pale yellow 2.5 Y 8/4
chronology of object	Punic-Middle Punic 430-350 B.C.E.
publication	Bechtold 2015a, cat. 42; Bechtold 2013c, fig. 29,1 pl. 5,1.
drawing
	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 2082-54
chronology of context	2nd century B.C.E.

sample taken	2008, by Babette Bechtold, Institute of Classical Archaeology, University of Tübingen
sample no	M 119/57

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Distribution of fabric type
“W-SARD-A-2”

Pantelleria Pantelleria Pantelleria Pantelleria Pantelleria

production sampling

Representative sample for
“W-SARD-A-2”

M 148/10

There are 6 more samples assigned to fabric type
“W-SARD-A-2”.

Other fabrics of western Sardinia: By contrast to W-SARD-A-1 to W-SARD-A-5,1 the following two fabrics W-SARD-A-6 and W-SARD-A-7 have not been defined on the basis of the analysis of the Riu Mannu and Terralba materials, but have been observed in samples from Carthage and Pantelleria.

Fabrics of Western Sardinia: Two fabrics have been defined by the Riu Mannu and Terralba projects on the basis of sys? tematically and intensively collected surface finds (1992?99 and 2003?04). Around 4,000 fragments from a dozen sites ...

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.)

Inclusions

Context Data