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
certainty of arguments	archaeological: quite certain
visual excamination of fresh break	colour exterior reddish grey, interior and core light red, texture coarse, numerous fine to large inclusions: white, grey, red, black, voids, mica
colour of freshly broken section (munsell)	exterior reddish brown 2.5 YR 5/3, interior and core light red 2.5 YR 6/8
texture of freshly broken surface	granular
hardness	hard
porosity	7.5%; void form: channel (0.08-1.4), vughy (0.06-1.6); void length: 0.06-1.6
inclusions	25%, length: <0.04-1.05
sorting	moderately sorted sand
	Inclusions
quartz	riddled with, well rounded - rounded, angular - very angular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - subelongate, white, grey, reddish, clear, 0.04-1,05
mica	frequent, spherical, elongate, white, <0.04-0.04
calciumcarbonate	frequent, subrounded, spherical - subspherical, white, yellowish, reddish, 0.06-0.56
carbonate pseudomorphoses	infrequent, subrounded, subspherical, subelongate, white, yellowish, reddish, 0.2-2.5
reddish inclusions	frequent, subrounded, spherical - subspherical, reddish brown, <0.04-0.84
black inclusions	infrequent, well rounded - subrounded, angular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, <0.04-0.4

vessel form type	Amphora Ramon T-1.4.4.1
fragmentation	rim
dimensions	diameter: 12cm (rim)
chronology of object	Punic-Middle Punic 500-380 B.C.E.
publication	Bechtold 2013c, fig. 27,1 pl. 4,5.
drawing
	Context Data
site of discovery	Pantelleria Acropolis Excavation
registration code of context	PN 06 ACR I 2029
registration code of object	PN 06 ACR I 2029-55
chronology of context	1st century B.C.E.

sample taken	2009, by Babette Bechtold, Institute of Classical Archaeology, University of Tübingen
sample no	M 119/86

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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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Context Data