W-SARD-A-7

fabric description

object data

archaeometry

fabric type	W-SARD-A-7
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 pale brown, texture fine and compact, numerous fine and some large inclusions: white, red, grey, yellow, mica, voids
colour of freshly broken section (munsell)	pink 7.5 YR 7/4
texture of freshly broken surface	irregular
hardness	hard
porosity	3%; void form: vughy (0.04-0.6), channel (0.2-1.6); void length: 0.04-1.6
inclusions	length: <0.04-4.8
sorting	unsorted
	Inclusions
quartz	riddled with, well rounded - subrounded, subangular - angular, very spherical, grey, white, clear, 0.04-0.44
mica	frequent, spherical, elongate, dark, white, <0.04-0.16
calciumcarbonate	infrequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, white, 0.04-0.4
carbonate pseudomorphoses	frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, white, 0.16-0.8
reddish inclusions	riddled with, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, red, reddish brown, <0.04-0.2
black inclusions	infrequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical, elongate, black, <0.04-0.08
brown inclusions	singular, subelongate, reddish brown, 4.8
foraminifera	infrequent, well rounded, very spherical, elongate, reddish, white, 0.12-0.56
more inclusions2	singular, very elongate, red, 0.8

vessel form type	Amphora Ramon T-5.1.1.1
fragmentation	rim
dimensions	diameter: 10cm (rim)
chronology of object	Punic-Late Punic 190-130 B.C.E.
publication	Bechtold 2013c, fig. 32,3.
drawing
	Context Data
site of discovery	Pantelleria Acropolis survey
registration code of context	PN 04 ACR RIC UT 83.1
registration code of object	PN 04 ACR RIC UT 83.1-11

sample taken	2008, by Babette Bechtold, Institute of Classical Archaeology, University of Tübingen
sample no	M 119/65

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Distribution of fabric type
“W-SARD-A-7”

Pantelleria Pantelleria Pantelleria

production sampling

Representative sample for
“W-SARD-A-7”

M 119/67

There are 2 more samples assigned to fabric type
“W-SARD-A-7”.

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