ENT-A-1

fabric description

object data

archaeometry

fabric type	ENT-A-1
ware	Transport Amphorae
supposed site of production	Entella
certainty of arguments	archaeological: quite certain
visual excamination of fresh break	Reddish clay with grey core, fine and compact, with a good amount of small visible inclusions of whitish-yellowish colour
colour of freshly broken section (munsell)	5 YR 6/6; 5 YR 5/1 (core)
texture of freshly broken surface	fine
hardness	hard
porosity	void form: vughy; channel; void length: 0.04-0.79 (channel lenght)
inclusions	length: 0.02-04-0.60
sorting	poorly sorted silt
	Inclusions
quartz	sporadic, subrounded, spherical, white/greyish/transparent, 0.04-0.20 (singular)
mica	very frequent, angular, spherical; very elongate, shiny, 0.02-0.12
calciumcarbonate	frequent, rounded; subrounded, spherical; subspherical, white yellowish, 0.04-0.24; 0.60 (sporadic)
reddish inclusions	infrequent, subangular; subrounded, spherical; very spherical, red, 0.03-04-0.20
black inclusions	sporadic, subrounded; subangular, very spherical, greyish/black, 0.12

vessel form type	Amphora Western Greek, 'a echino?
fragmentation	rim
dimensions	diameter: 16cm (rim); height: 3cm
surface description	slipped traces of thick whitish slip inside/outside 2.5 Y 8/1
chronology of object	Greek 4th c. BC?
drawing
	Context Data
site of discovery	Entella surface
registration code of context	E88-601
registration code of object	Inv. 7350
chronology of context	Survey

sample taken	February 2019, by Alessandro Corretti, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
sample no	M 187/96
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