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, red, voids
colour of freshly broken section (munsell)	reddish brown 5 YR 5/4, core reddish brown 5 YR 4/4
texture of freshly broken surface	granular
hardness	hard
porosity	5%; void form: vughy (0.04-0.52), channel (0.12-0.4); void length: 0.04-0.52
inclusions	25%, length: <0.04-1.2
sorting	moderately sorted sand
	Inclusions
quartz	riddled with, well rounded, subangular - angular, very spherical - subspherical, grey, yellowish, white, reddish, clear, 0.06-1.5
mica	infrequent, spherical, white, <0.04
calciumcarbonate	infrequent, rounded, angular, spherical, subelongate, white, 0.2-1.2
carbonate pseudomorphoses	singular, subelongate, white, 0.32
reddish inclusions	infrequent, well rounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, red, reddish brown, 0.04-0.2
black inclusions	frequent, well rounded, subangular, spherical - subspherical, black, <0.04-0.24
white inclusions	frequent, well rounded, angular, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, white, pale orange, 0.04-0.4

vessel form type	Amphora undiagnostic
fragmentation	body
chronology of object	Punic undatable
publication	Bechtold 1999, 317.
	Context Data
site of discovery	Lilibeo / Lilybaion necropolis
registration code of context	MR 87, V. de Casperi, T. 106
registration code of object	MR 87, V. de Casperi, T. 106

sample taken	1990, by Babette Bechtold, Soprintendenza BB.CC.AA Trapani
sample no	M 166/2

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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