| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| fabric type |
ION-ADR-A-5
|
| fabric previously published as |
Impasto 4 |
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Ionic-Adriatic region |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour light brown, texture fine and compact, fine inclusions: white, red, mica, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
reddish yellow 5 YR 6/6, core light brown 7.5 YR 6/4 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
5.0%; void form: vughy (0.04-0.6), channel (0.12-0.48); void length: 0.04-0.48 |
| inclusions |
2.5%, length: <0.04-1.0 |
| sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
very frequent, rounded - subrounded, spherical - subspherical, clear, white, reddish, 0.04-0.16 |
|
mica |
frequent, angular, spherical, elongate, white, <0.04-0.04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
singular, rounded, spherical, elongate, white, 0.04-0.16 |
|
reddish inclusions |
frequent, rounded, subrounded, spherical - subspherical, very elongate, red, reddish brown, <0.04-1.0 |
|
black inclusions |
infrequent, rounded, spherical, elongate - very elongate, black, <0.04-0.6 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| vessel form type |
Amphora
Figure 8-shaped |
| fragmentation |
rim |
| dimensions |
diameter: 15cm (rim) |
| chronology of object |
Greek-Hellenistic
250-200 B.C.E. |
| publication |
Bechtold 2013c, fig. 12,1. |
| drawing |
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| |
Context Data
|
| site of discovery |
Jerba
Ghizène |
| registration code of context |
GH 110235 |
| registration code of object |
GH 110235.86 |
| chronology of context |
1st century C.E. |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| sample taken |
2011, by Sami Ben Tahar, INP Jerba |
| sample no |
M 149/35 |
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