W-CENT-SARD-A-1

fabric description

object data

archaeometry

fabric type	W-CENT-SARD-A-1
fabric previously published as	Impasto 43
ware	Transport Amphorae
supposed site of production	West Central Sardinia
certainty of arguments	archaeological: quite certain
visual excamination of fresh break	exterior light red, interior and core reddish brown, texture coarse, numerous fine to large inclusions: white, grey, mica, voids
colour of freshly broken section (munsell)	exterior light red 2.5 YR 6/8, interior and core reddish brown 2.5 YR 5/4
texture of freshly broken surface	granular
hardness	hard
porosity	7.5%; void form: vughy (0.04-3.8), channel (0.08-0.44); void length: 0.04-3.8
inclusions	20%, length: <0.04-1.32
sorting	moderately sorted sand
	Inclusions
quartz	riddled with, well rounded - rounded, angular - very angular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - subelongate, grey, white, clear, 0.06-1,32
mica	infrequent, spherical, elongate, white, <0.04-0.04
calciumcarbonate	infrequent, subrounded, subspherical, white, 0.08-2.3
carbonate pseudomorphoses	singular, subrounded, subspherical, white, 0.36
reddish inclusions	infrequent, subrounded, subspherical, elongate, red, reddish brown, <0.04-0.68
black inclusions	frequent, well rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, <0.04-0.2

vessel form type	Amphora Ramon T-4.1.1.3
fragmentation	rim
dimensions	diameter: 12cm (rim)
chronology of object	Punic-Middle Punic 430-350 B.C.E.
publication	Bechtold 2013c, fig. 27,2 pl. 4,6.
drawing
	Context Data
site of discovery	Pantelleria Acropolis Survey
registration code of context	PN 04 ACR RIC UT 116.1
registration code of object	PN 04 ACR RIC UT 116.1-9

sample taken	2009, by Babette Bechtold, Institute of Classical Archaeology, University of Tübingen
sample no	M 119/85

Cite this page as: FACEM - http://facem.at/m-119-85

Distribution of fabric type
“W-CENT-SARD-A-1”

Pantelleria Pantelleria Himera Mozia / Motya

production sampling

Representative sample for
“W-CENT-SARD-A-1”

M 148/2

There are 3 more samples assigned to fabric type
“W-CENT-SARD-A-1”.

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Fabrics of Western Central Sardinia: Two fabrics have been defined by the Riu Mannu and Terralba projects on the basis of systematically 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.)

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Context Data