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 and sporadic large inclusions: red, white
colour of freshly broken section (munsell)	pink 7.5 YR 8/3
texture of freshly broken surface	irregular
hardness	hard
porosity	3.5%; void form: vughy (0.06-0.56), channel (0.032-0.8); void length: 0.06-0.8
inclusions	25%, length: <0.04-6.6
sorting	unsorted
	Inclusions
quartz	riddled with, rounded , angular, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, elongate, grey, white, clear, 0.04-0.6
mica	infrequent, spherical, angular, elongate, white, <0.04-0.04
calciumcarbonate	infrequent, rounded, very spherical, elongate, white, 0.04-0.4
carbonate pseudomorphoses	infrequent, subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, reddish brown, 0.06-0.28
reddish inclusions	riddled with, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical, elongate, very elongate, red, reddish brown, <0.04-0.16
black inclusions	very frequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, very elongate, black, <0.08-0.32
more inclusions1	infrequent, well rounded, rounded, very spherical, subspherical, white, orange, 0.08-0.36
more inclusions2	singular, very elongate, orange, 6.6
more inclusions3	infrequent, sperical - subelongate, light brown, 0.08-0.64

vessel form type	Amphora Ramon T-5.2.2.1
fragmentation	rim
dimensions	diameter: 14cm (rim)
surface description	pale yellow 2.5 Y 8/4
chronology of object	Punic-Late Punic 280-200 B.C.E.
publication	Bechtold 2015a, cat. 46 a-d; Bechtold 2013c, fig. 29,4.
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 2090-17
chronology of context	260-240 B.C.E.

sample taken	2008, by Babette Bechtold, Institute of Classical Archaeology, University of Tübingen
sample no	M 119/58

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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