VEL-A-4

fabric description

object data

archaeometry

fabric type	VEL-A-4
ware	Transport Amphorae
certainty of arguments	archaeological: quite certain
visual excamination of fresh break	colour red, texture coarse, numerous fine to large inclusions: white, grey, red, mica, voids
colour of freshly broken section (munsell)	red 2.5 YR 5/8
texture of freshly broken surface	granular
hardness	hard
porosity	3.5%; void form: channel (0.08-0.4), vughy (0.08-0.4); void length: 0.08-0.4
inclusions	12.5%, length: <0.04-1.6
sorting	bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt
	Inclusions
quartz	very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, subangular - angular, very spherical - subspherrical, elongate, white, grey, reddish, clear, 0.04-1.6
mica	very frequent, spherical, angular, white, dark, 0.04-0.06
calciumcarbonate	infrequent, well rounded, rounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, white, 0.04-0.28
carbonate pseudomorphoses	infrequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, white, 0.28-0.8
reddish inclusions	very frequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, 0.04-0.68
black inclusions	infrequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, black, 0.04-0.12

vessel form type	Amphora Gassner 8
fragmentation	profile
dimensions	diameter: 12.5cm (rim); height: 70cm
chronology of object	Greek-Hellenistic 320-290 B.C.E.
publication	Bechtold 1999, 328 tav. XXX,277; Bechtold 2013c, fig. 23,1 pl. 4,1.
drawing
	Context Data
site of discovery	Lilibeo / Lilybaion Crs. Gramsci 1989
registration code of context	US 1029-2, MR 171
registration code of object	US 1029-2, MR 171
chronology of context	320-290 B.C.E.

sample taken	2013, by Babette Bechtold, Soprintendenza BB.CC.AA Trapani
sample no	M 166/12

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Distribution of fabric type
“VEL-A-4”

Velia Segesta Lilibeo / Lilybaion Velia Velia

production sampling

Representative sample for
“VEL-A-4”

M 6/5

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

Transport Amphorae from Velia: Introduction Until now the production of transport amphorae in Velia is only confirmed by archaeometric analyses, while evidence for kilns or other indicators of local production are still missing.1 The earliest amphorae produced in Velia appear only in the second quarter of the 5th c. B.C.E. and their production can be followed until the first quarter of the 2nd c. B.C.E?

Pottery production at Velia: Ceramic raw materials and archaeometric analyses: Introduction The local production of pottery, bricks and tiles has been assumed for Velia as well as for many other colonies in Magna Graecia at a rather early stage of research, but the characteristics and the development of this production remained unknown for a long time?

Fabrics of Velia: The classification of fabrics is based upon the macroscopic analysis of all diagnostic fragments of the material of studied contexts of the Austrian excavations. These comprise a context of the Early Classical period in the Lower town of Velia...

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.)

Inclusions

Context Data