PAE-A-4

fabric description

object data

archaeometry

fabric type	PAE-A-4
ware	Transport Amphorae
supposed site of production	Paestum
certainty of arguments	archaeological: quite certain
visual excamination of fresh break	colour yellowish brown, texture middle fine and compact, numerous fine and some large inclusions: white, grey, red, mica, voids
colour of freshly broken section (munsell)	light red 2.5 YR 6/8
texture of freshly broken surface	granular
hardness	hard
porosity	7.5%; void form: vughy (0.04-1.0), channel (0.12-0,4); void length: 0.04-1.0
inclusions	17.5%, length: <0.04-1.0
sorting	bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt
	Inclusions
quartz	very frequent, well rounded - rounded, subangular - angular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, grey, white, clear, 0.08-1.0
mica	frequent, spherical, angular, white, <0.04
calciumcarbonate	singular, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, white, yellowish, 0.12-0.7
carbonate pseudomorphoses	infrequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, white, 0.16-0.6
reddish inclusions	frequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - spherical, subelongate, elongate, reddish brown, red, 0.04-0.88
black inclusions	infrequent, rounded, very spherical, elongate - subelongate, black, 0.06-0.56

vessel form type	Amphora MGS III/Gassner 9a
fragmentation	rim
dimensions	diameter: 10.4cm (rim)
chronology of object	Greek-Hellenistic 330-280 B.C.E.
publication	Bechtold 2013c, fig. 20,6 pl. 3,6; Bechtold (forthcoming 3), cat. 62.
drawing
	Context Data
site of discovery	Selinunte / Selinus Temple B
registration code of context	saggio E, US 1 fondo
registration code of object	saggio E, US 1 fondo, P08.46
chronology of context	310-290 B.C.E.

sample taken	2011, by Babette Bechtold, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
sample no	M 154/52

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Distribution of fabric type
“PAE-A-4”

Velia Velia Selinunte / Selinus Paestum Paestum Paestum

production sampling

Representative sample for
“PAE-A-4”

M 6/88

There are 2 more samples assigned to fabric type
“PAE-A-4”.

Fabrics of Paestum: The classification of fabrics is based upon the macroscopic analysis of all diagnostic frag? ments of the material of studied contexts of the Austrian excavations ...

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.)

Anfore e ceramica acroma dall'avamposto militare di Monte Turcisi (CT). Uno studio preliminare sulle provenienze: Introduzione Il modesto rilievo collinare alto 303 m, denominato ?Monte Turcisi?, si trova al confine settentrionale della Piana di Catania e ricade oggi nel comune di Castel Di Iudica, in provincia della città etnea. Le strutture di interesse archeologico su di esso affiornati riguardano principalmente i resti relatvi ad una fortezza militare di epoca greca e di un eremo del XVII sec. d.C.

Inclusions

Context Data