W-SARD-A-6

fabric description

object data

archaeometry

fabric type	W-SARD-A-6
fabric previously published as	Impasto 47
ware	Transport Amphorae
supposed site of production	Western Sardinia
certainty of arguments	archaeological: quite certain
visual excamination of fresh break	colour reddish brown, texture middle fine and compact, some fine and some large inclusions: white, grey, red, voids
colour of freshly broken section (munsell)	reddish brown 5 YR 5/4
texture of freshly broken surface	regular
hardness	hard
porosity	4.5%; void form: vughy (0.06-0.8), channel (0.08-1.12); void length: 0.06-1.12
inclusions	7.5%, length: <0.04-1.2
sorting	bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt
	Inclusions
quartz	infrequent, well rounded - rounded, subangular - angular, very spherical - spherical, subelongate, elongate, white, grey, reddish, clear, 0.06-1.2
mica	very frequent, spherical, angular, elongate, dark, white, <0.01-0.12
carbonate pseudomorphoses	singular, rounded, subelongate, white, 0.36
reddish inclusions	frequent, subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, red, reddish brown, <0.04-0.32
black inclusions	frequent, well rounded, very spherical, elongate, black, <0.04-0.08

vessel form type	Amphora undiagnostic
fragmentation	body
chronology of object	Punic-Late Punic 300-250 B.C.E.
	Context Data
site of discovery	Pantelleria Acropolis excavation
registration code of context	PN 06 ACR I 2095
registration code of object	PN 06 ACR I 2095-22
chronology of context	260-240 B.C.E.

sample taken	2008, by Babette Bechtold, Institute of Classical Archaeology, University of Tübingen
sample no	M 119/70

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Distribution of fabric type
“W-SARD-A-6”

Pantelleria Carthage Carthage Pantelleria Pantelleria

production sampling

Representative sample for
“W-SARD-A-6”

M 119/69

There are 4 more samples assigned to fabric type
“W-SARD-A-6”.

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