| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
fabric type |
CAMP-C-2
|
ware |
Coarse Wares |
supposed site of production |
Campania |
certainty of arguments |
archaeological: not certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
light brown, fine; some white red and dark inclusions, mica |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
7.5YR6/4 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
fine |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
1%; void form: vughy; void length: 0,08-0,6 |
inclusions |
15%, length: 0,04-0,32 |
sorting |
well sorted sand in different compositions |
|
Inclusions
|
quartz |
frequent, angular, spherical, clear; white, 0.04-0,28 |
mica |
infrequent |
reddish inclusions |
riddled with, rounded, spherical, red, 0,12-0,32 |
black inclusions |
riddled with, angular, elongate, black |
foraminifera |
frequent, rounded, spherical, white, 0,08 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
fragmentation |
body |
surface description |
coarse |
|
Context Data
|
site of discovery |
Pozzuoli |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
applied method for sample analysis |
thin section and heavy mineral analysis |
analysis author |
Roman Sauer |
sample taken |
July 1994, by Verena Gassner, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University |
sample no |
M 18/5 |
status of sample |
sample surplus, thin section and heavy mineral analysis surplus available |
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