| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | petrography | | |
| fabric type |
HIM-A-1
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Himera |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: certain, archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
Brown colour clay with a good amount of visible inclusions of white-yellowish colour; carbonatic matrix |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
7.5 YR 5/4 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
void form: Spongy; Channel; Vughy; void length: 0.16-0.60 |
| inclusions |
length: 0.08-0.67 |
| sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
diffuse, subrounded; angular; subangular, spherical; subspherical, Greyish-trasparent-whitish, 0,12-0,40 |
|
mica |
frequent, angular, spherical, shiny, 0,03 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
frequent, well rounded; rounded, very spherical, yellowish-white, 0,04-0,48 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
frequent, angular; subangular, spherical; very spherical, yellowish, 0,08-16-0,20 |
|
more inclusions2 |
singular, angular, subspherical, orange-reddish, 0,08-0,20 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | petrography | | |
| vessel form type |
Amphora
Western Greek, Gassner rim 1 |
| fragmentation |
profile |
| dimensions |
diameter: 15.3cm (rim), 5.6, (peg)cm (bottom); height: 51cm |
| surface description |
slipped
pinkish slip 7.5 YR 8/3 |
| chronology of object |
Greek-Archaic
550-520 BC |
| publication |
Bechtold et al. 2019, 5, fig. 3,1; Bechtold 2020, fig. 2,1; Montana et al. 2020, fig. 2,A-B |
| drawing |
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| |
Context Data
|
| site of discovery |
Himera
Necropoli Ovest |
| registration code of context |
W3647 |
| registration code of object |
W3647 - HA14044 |
| chronology of context |
550-525 BC |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | petrography | | |
| applied method for sample analysis |
thin section, chemical analysis |
| analysis author |
Montana/Randazzo |
| sample taken |
February 2018, by Babette Bechtold, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University |
| sample no |
M 179/166 |
| status of sample |
whole sample available |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | petrography | | |
| sample number |
M 179/166 |
| inventory number |
W3647 HA14044 |
| analysis author |
Giuseppe Montana - Luciana Randazzo |
| email |
giuseppe.montana@unipa.it; luciana.randazzo@unical.it |
| institution |
University of Palermo - Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e del Mare (DiSTeM); University of Calabria Dipartimento di Biologia, Ecologia e Scienze della Terra (DiBEST):
|
| |
Inclusions Microstructure
|
| distribution |
not homogeneous |
| packing |
medium (10-20%) |
| size |
frequent:
very fine (0.04-0.1mm)
common:
fine (0.1-0.2mm), medium (0.2-0.5mm)
|
| roundness |
angular |
| sorting |
scarce-serial |
| maximum grain size |
0.5 |
| |
Mineral Inclusions
|
| prevalent |
Monocrystalline Quartz |
| common |
Polycrystalline Quartz, Orthoclase, Muscovite |
| sporadic |
Plagioclase |
| |
Rock Fragments
|
| rare |
Magmatic (plutonic) (Granitoid) |
| |
Newly Formed Phases
|
| common |
secondary calcite |
| |
Other Compositional & Textural Features
|
| common |
Microfossils, Micritic Clots |
| quartz grain prevailing roundness |
angular |
| |
Coating / Slipping
|
| thickness |
|
| conservation status |
|
| |
Texture
|
| homogenity |
moderately homogeneous patchy: common |
| optical activity |
inactive |
| color |
|
| degree of sintering |
well sintered |
| |
Porosity
|
| abundance of voids/pores |
low (<10%) |
| orientation |
partial |
| prevalent |
tiny (<0.01mm), small (0.01-0.1mm), medium (0.1-1mm), irregular, vesicular, cast |
| |
Composition
|
| clay composition |
ca-rich |
| |
Interpretation
|
| estimated firing temperature |
well fired |
| modelling of raw clay |
use of wheel |
| refinement of raw clay |
bad |
| refinement of temper |
sieved natural sand |
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