| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| fabric type |
ISC-CBM-3
|
| ware |
Ceramic Building Materials |
| supposed site of production |
Ischia |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
light brownish gray, irregular; many fine to large dark gray, scattered white inclusions |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
2.5Y6/2 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
1%; void form: vughy; void length: 0,12 |
| inclusions |
25%, length: 0,04-0,6 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
frequent, angular, spherical - subspherical, clear, 0.12-1,5 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
riddled with, well rounded, spherical, white, 0,04 |
|
reddish inclusions |
singular, rounded, spherical, red, 0,04 |
|
black inclusions |
frequent, rounded, spherical - subsperial, black, 0,2-0,6 |
|
grey inclusions |
frequent, rounded, spherical - subspherical, dark grey, 0,08-1 |
|
brown inclusions |
infrequent, rounded, spherical - subspherical, rusty brown, 0,2-0,4 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| vessel form type |
Tile (cover tile) |
| fragmentation |
fragmentation not specified |
| surface description |
coarse |
| |
Context Data
|
| site of discovery |
Ischia
Santa Restituta |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| applied method for sample analysis |
thin section and heavy mineral analysis |
| analysis author |
Roman Sauer |
| petrographic mineralogical type |
RVZ 3 |
| sample taken |
July 1994, by Verena Gassner, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University |
| sample no |
M 12/9 |
| status of sample |
thin section surplus available |
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