W-SARD-A-5

fabric description

object data

archaeometry

fabric type	W-SARD-A-5
ware	Transport Amphorae
supposed site of production	Western Sardinia
certainty of arguments	archaeological: quite certain
visual excamination of fresh break	colour very pale brown, core greyish, texture fine and compact, numerous fine to some large inclusions: white, red, grey, mica, voids
colour of freshly broken section (munsell)	exterior and interior pink 5 YR 7/4, core light brownish grey 10 YR 6/2
texture of freshly broken surface	regular
hardness	hard
porosity	3.5%; void form: channel (0.08-2.4), vughy (0.04-1.8); void length: 0.04-2.4
inclusions	20%, length: <0.04-1.12
sorting	unsorted
	Inclusions
quartz	riddled with, well rounded - subrounded, subangular - angular, very spherical - subspheical, elongate, grey, clear, 0.04-0.32
mica	infrequent, spherical, angular, elongate, white, dark, 0.04-0.04
calciumcarbonate	frequent, subrounded, angular, spherical - subspherical, subelongate, elongate, very elongate, white, yellowish, reddish, 0.04-0.36
carbonate pseudomorphoses	infrequent, subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, white, brown, 0.12-1.12
reddish inclusions	frequent, subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, red, reddish brown, <0.04-0.52
black inclusions	infrequent, subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, 0.04-0.28
foraminifera	singular, well rounded, spherical, white, 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. 30,2.
drawing
	Context Data
site of discovery	Pantelleria Acropolis survey
registration code of context	PN 04 ACR RIC UT 78.1
registration code of object	PN 04 ACR RIC UT 78.1-2

sample taken	2009, by Babette Bechtold, Institute of Classical Archaeology, University of Tübingen
sample no	M 119/92

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Distribution of fabric type
“W-SARD-A-5”

Carthage Carthage Pantelleria Pantelleria Pantelleria

production sampling

Representative sample for
“W-SARD-A-5”

M 148/15

There are 5 more samples assigned to fabric type
“W-SARD-A-5”.

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