PAE-A-3

PAE-A-3, M 149/15, 25x

PAE-A-3, M 149/15, 16x

PAE-A-3, M 149/15, 8x

fabric description

object data

archaeometry

fabric type	PAE-A-3
ware	Transport Amphorae
supposed site of production	Paestum
certainty of arguments	archaeological: quite certain
visual excamination of fresh break	colour exterior light brown, interior red, texture coarse and compact, numerous fine to large inclusions: white, grey, black, red, voids
colour of freshly broken section (munsell)	exterior light reddish brown 2.5 YR 6/4, light red 2.5 YR 6/8
texture of freshly broken surface	irregular
hardness	hard
porosity	2.5%; void form: vughy (0.08-0.6), channel (0.08-1.2); void length: 0.08-1.2
inclusions	10%, length: <0.04-1.2
sorting	bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt
	Inclusions
quartz	frequent, rounded - angular, spherical - subspherical, elongate, grey, white, clea, 0.06-0.8
mica	frequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, <0.04-0.04
calciumcarbonate	singular, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, white, 0.04-0.7
carbonate pseudomorphoses	singular, rounded, subspherical, white, 0.4-1.2
reddish inclusions	infrequent, rounded, angular, spherical, elongate, reddish brown, 0.04-0.4
black inclusions	infrequent, subrounded, angular, subspherical, black, 0.04-0.08

vessel form type	Amphora Gassner Rand 7c close to
fragmentation	rim
dimensions	diameter: 13cm (rim)
chronology of object	Greek-Classic 360-330 B.C.E.
publication	Bechtold 2013c, fig. 20,1.
drawing
	Context Data
site of discovery	Jerba Ghizène
registration code of context	GH 110241.140
registration code of object	GH 110241.140
chronology of context	1st century C.E.

sample taken	2011, by Sami Ben Tahar, INP Jerba
sample no	M 149/15

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Distribution of fabric type
“PAE-A-3”

production sampling

Representative sample for
“PAE-A-3”

M 6/77

There are 16 more samples assigned to fabric type
“PAE-A-3”.

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Inclusions

Context Data