W-SARD-A-5

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W-SARD-A-5

fabric description

object data

archaeometry

fabric type	W-SARD-A-5
fabric previously published as	Impasto 46
ware	Transport Amphorae
supposed site of production	Western Sardinia
certainty of arguments	archaeological: quite certain
visual excamination of fresh break	colour pale brown, texture fine and compact, numerous fine to some large inclusions: grey, red, mica
colour of freshly broken section (munsell)	pink - reddish yellow 5 YR 7/4-7/6
texture of freshly broken surface	irregular
hardness	hard
porosity	5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0.06-0.8
inclusions	25%, length: <0.04-0.88
sorting	unsorted
	Inclusions
quartz	riddled with, well rounded - subrounded, subangular - angular, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, elongate, very elongate, grey, white, clear, reddish brown, 0.04-0.8
mica	frequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, dark, 0.04-0.04
calciumcarbonate	riddled with, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - very elongate, white, 0.04-0.88
carbonate pseudomorphoses	very frequent, well rounded, very spherical - subspherical, white, yellowish white, 0.04-0.16
reddish inclusions	riddled with, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, very elongate, red, reddish brown, <0.04-0.16
black inclusions	frequent, subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - very elongate, black, <0.04-0.56
foraminifera	very frequent, well rounded, subrounded, very spherical, subspherical, white, 0.16-0.4
more inclusions2	singular, well rounded, very spherical, black, 0.2

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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”

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.)