W-SARD-A-6

fabric description

object data

archaeometry

fabric type	W-SARD-A-6
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, numerous large inclusions: white, yellowish, grey, red, mica
colour of freshly broken section (munsell)	reddish brown 5 YR 5/4
texture of freshly broken surface	irregular
hardness	hard
porosity	2.5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0.08-2.8
inclusions	10%, length: <0.04-0.92
sorting	bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt
	Inclusions
quartz	frequent, well rounded - subangular, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, grey, white, reddish, clear, 0.06-0.6
mica	very frequent, spherical, angular, elongate, white, dark, <0.04-0.06
calciumcarbonate	frequent, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, white, 0.04-0.4
carbonate pseudomorphoses	singular, subelongate, white, black, 0.4-0.6
reddish inclusions	frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, red, reddish brown, <0.04-0.44
black inclusions	frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, <0.04-0.2
brown inclusions	singular, subrounded, very spherical, brown - red, 0.95

vessel form type	Amphora Ramon T-1.4.2.1./3.1
fragmentation	rim
dimensions	diameter: 9cm (rim)
chronology of object	Punic-Early Punic 530-480 B.C.E.
publication	Bechtold 2013c, fig. 31,1.
drawing
	Context Data
site of discovery	Pantelleria Acropolis excavation
registration code of context	PN 03 ACR III 1114
registration code of object	PN 03 ACR III 1114-3
chronology of context	1st-2nd century C.E.

sample taken	2009, by Babette Bechtold, Institute of Classical Archaeology, University of Tübingen
sample no	M 119/80

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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