W-CENT-SARD-A-3

fabric description

object data

archaeometry

fabric type	W-CENT-SARD-A-3
ware	Transport Amphorae
supposed site of production	West Central Sardinia
certainty of arguments	archaeological: quite certain
visual excamination of fresh break	colour reddish brown, texture coarse, numerous fine to large inclusions: white, grey, black, red, mica
colour of freshly broken section (munsell)	reddish brown 5 YR 5/4
texture of freshly broken surface	granular
hardness	hard
porosity	5%; void form: vughy (0.06-0.8), channel (0.2-0.8); void length: 0.06-0.8
inclusions	30%, length: <0,04-2.4
sorting	moderately sorted sand
	Inclusions
quartz	riddled with, well rounded, subangular - angular, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate - elongate, grey, white, reddish, 0.08-1.2
mica	infrequent, spherical, angular, white, dark, <0.04-0.04
calciumcarbonate	singular, well rounded, subangular, spherical - subspherical, white, 0.24-2.4
reddish inclusions	infrequent, well rounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, red, reddish brown, 0.04-0.32
black inclusions	frequent, rounded, subspherical, elongate, black, <0.04-0.72

vessel form type	Amphora undiagnostic
fragmentation	body
chronology of object	Punic undiagnostic
publication	Bechtold 1999, 341.
	Context Data
site of discovery	Lilibeo / Lilybaion necropolis
registration code of context	MR 90, V. Cicerone, T. 60
registration code of object	MR 90, V. Cicerone, T. 60-4

sample taken	1990, by Babette Bechtold, Soprintendenza BB.CC.AA Trapani
sample no	M 166/1

Cite this page as: FACEM - http://facem.at/m-166-1

Distribution of fabric type
“W-CENT-SARD-A-3”

Carthage Carthage Carthage Carthage Carthage Malta Pantelleria Pantelleria Pantelleria Pantelleria Pantelleria Pantelleria Pantelleria Pantelleria Pantelleria Selinunte / Selinus Lilibeo / Lilybaion Lilibeo / Lilybaion

production sampling

Representative sample for
“W-CENT-SARD-A-3”

M 148/3

There are 19 more samples assigned to fabric type
“W-CENT-SARD-A-3”.

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Inclusions

Context Data