| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
fabric type |
CAL-A-1
|
fabric previously published as |
PN impasto 5 |
ware |
Transport Amphorae |
supposed site of production |
Calabria |
certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
colour light brown, texture fine and compact, numerous fine inclusions: red, white, grey, mica |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
pink 7.5 YR 7/4 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04-0.2 |
inclusions |
15%, length: <0.04-1.2 |
sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
|
Inclusions
|
quartz |
frequent, rounded - subrounded, spherical - subspherical, grey, reddish, clear, white, 0.04-1.2 |
mica |
frequent, spherical, angular, white, dark, <0.04-0.04 |
calciumcarbonate |
very frequent, rounded - subrounded, spherical, subelongate, white, 0.04-0.08 |
reddish inclusions |
very frequent, well rounded - rounded, spherical, very elongate, red, reddish brown, 0.04-0.2 |
black inclusions |
infrequent, rounded, spherical, black, 0.04-0.2 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
vessel form type |
Amphora Gassner 6 |
fragmentation |
rim |
dimensions |
diameter: 15.6cm (rim) |
chronology of object |
Greek-Classic 430-350 B.C.E. |
publication |
Bechtold 2013c, fig. 6,6. |
drawing |
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Context Data
|
site of discovery |
Jerba Ghizène |
registration code of context |
GH 180116 |
registration code of object |
GH 180116.1 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
sample taken |
2011, by Sami Ben Tahar, INP Jerba |
sample no |
M 149/41 |
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