ENT-A-1

fabric description

object data

archaeometry

fabric type	ENT-A-1
ware	Transport Amphorae
supposed site of production	Entella
certainty of arguments	archaeometric: quite certain, archaeological: quite certain
visual excamination of fresh break	Brown-reddish clay, fine and compact, with very few visible inclusions of whitish colour
colour of freshly broken section (munsell)	2.5 YR 5/6
texture of freshly broken surface	fine
hardness	hard
porosity	void form: vughy; void length: 0.04-0.40
inclusions	length: 0.03-04-0.67
sorting	poorly sorted silt
	Inclusions
quartz	sporadic, angular; subangular, spherical; subspherical, transparent, 0.08-0.67
mica	frequent/infrequent, angular, spherical; elongate, shiny, 0.02-04-0.08
calciumcarbonate	infrequent, rounded; subrounded, spherical; elongate, whitish/yellowish, 0.08-0.60
carbonate pseudomorphoses	very frequent, well rounded; rounded, very spherical; spherical, whitish/yellowish, 0.03-04-0.20
reddish inclusions	sporadic, rounded; subrounded, spherical; elongate, red, 0.08-0.20

vessel form type	Amphora Western Greek, "a breve tesa"
fragmentation	rim
dimensions	diameter: 13.2cm (rim)
surface description	slipped traces of thick whitish slip inside/outside 2.5 Y 8/1
chronology of object	Greek 330-300 BC?
publication	Corretti and Capelli 2003, 302, cat. 59, pl. LVIII
drawing
	Context Data
site of discovery	Entella SAS 3
registration code of context	E88- 336-348
chronology of context	late 4th-first half 3rd c. BC

applied method for sample analysis	thin section
analysis author	Montana/Randazzo
sample taken	February 2019, by Alessandro Corretti, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
sample no	M 187/121
status of sample	whole sample available

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Distribution of fabric type
“ENT-A-1”

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production sampling

Representative sample for
“ENT-A-1”

M 187/106

There are 10 more samples assigned to fabric type
“ENT-A-1”.

Anfore dall'entroterra agrigentino. Due casi a confronto: Con questo contributo si desidera presentare le anfore provenienti da due contesti che ricadono nel territorio del comune di Casteltermini, ubicato nell?entroterra siciliano a circa 30 km a NE dall?antica colonia di Akragas. Da un punto di vista topografico l?area presenta altopiani, ancora oggi sfruttati per uso agricolo, bordati da alture, tre le quali emerge Pizzo Santa Croce avente un?altezza di 782m s.l.m.

Amphorae fabric of Entella: Introduction About 70 samples, taken from amphorae found during archaeological investigations conducted at Entella and yielded by a survey project, have been studied for the identification of the present fabric. Two samples have been submitted to petrographical analysis and the results have been compared

Entella (Contessa Entellina, PA). Produzioni locali e importazioni di anfore nella città e nel territorio (VI-inizio III sec. a.C.): Si presentano in questa sede 12 campioni anforici da Entella (Contessa Entellina, PA), in parte sottoposti ad analisi mineropetrografiche per identificare l?area di produzione. Lo scopo è di verificare la possibilità di attribuire all?Entella di età arcaico-classica e protoellenistica produzioni anforiche proprie.

Inclusions

Context Data