W-SARD-A-4

fabric description

object data

archaeometry

fabric type	W-SARD-A-4
fabric previously published as	Impasto 58
ware	Transport Amphorae
supposed site of production	Sardinia
certainty of arguments	archaeological: quite certain
visual excamination of fresh break	colour reddish pale brown, texture fine and compact, numerous fine incusions: gray, red, voids, mica
colour of freshly broken section (munsell)	reddish yellow 5 YR 7/6, light reddish brown 5 YR 6/4
texture of freshly broken surface	regular
hardness	hard
porosity	3.5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0.04-1.2
inclusions	7.5%, length: <0.04-0.72
sorting	poorly sorted silt
	Inclusions
quartz	infrequent, angular very angular, subspherical, subelongate, grey, clear, white, reddish, 0.04-0.56
mica	frequent, spherical, angular, elongate, white, dark, <0.04-0.06
carbonate pseudomorphoses	riddled with, rounded - subrounded, spherical - subspherical, yellowish white, <0.04-0.2
reddish inclusions	infrequent, rounded, subspherical, subelongate, elongate, red, reddish brown, 0.04-0.2
black inclusions	very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, subangular - angular, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, elongate, black, 0.04-0.72

vessel form type	Amphora Ramon T-4.1.1.4
fragmentation	rim
dimensions	diameter: 12cm (rim)
chronology of object	Punic-Middle Punic 430-300 B.C.E.
drawing
	Context Data
site of discovery	Pantelleria Acropolis-Survey
registration code of context	PN 04 UT 115.1
registration code of object	PN 04 ACR RIC UT 115.1-12

sample taken	2009, by Babette Bechtold, Institute of Classical Archaeology, University of Tübingen
sample no	M 119/90

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Distribution of fabric type
“W-SARD-A-4”

Pantelleria Sardinia

production sampling

Representative sample for
“W-SARD-A-4”

M 148/13

There are 1 more sample assigned to fabric type
“W-SARD-A-4”.

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Inclusions

Context Data