| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | petrography | | |
| fabric type |
PAN-SOL-A-2
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Palermo/Panormos-Solunto/Solus |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: quite certain, archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
Light brown clay with a good amount of small, white-yellowish, visible inclusions in large concentration |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
7.5 YR 6/3 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
void form: vughy; chambers (sporadic); void length: 0.04-0.20-24 |
| inclusions |
length: 0.04-08-0.71 |
| sorting |
well sorted silt |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
calciumcarbonate |
very frequent, subrounded; subangular, subspherical; very spherical, whitish/yellowish, 0.04-08-0.71 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
very frequent, rounded, very spherical; subspherical, whitish/yellowish, 0.04-08-0.40 |
|
reddish inclusions |
rare, angular; subangular; subrounded, elongate; subspherical, reddish/orange, 0.08-0.16 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | petrography | | |
| vessel form type |
Amphora
Western Greek, Gassner rim 2-3 |
| fragmentation |
rim |
| dimensions |
diameter: 12cm (rim); height: 4cm |
| surface description |
slipped
white 10 YR 8/2 |
| chronology of object |
Greek-Archaic-Late Archaic
510-480 BC |
| drawing |
 |
| |
Context Data
|
| site of discovery |
Pizzo Cannita
Survey |
| registration code of context |
EL2 |
| registration code of object |
EL2-14F |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | petrography | | |
| applied method for sample analysis |
thin section |
| analysis author |
Montana/Randazzo |
| sample taken |
March 2018, by Teresa Arena |
| sample no |
M 189/36 |
| status of sample |
whole sample available |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | petrography | | |
| sample number |
M 189/36 |
| inventory number |
EL2-14F |
| 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 |
moderately homogeneous |
| packing |
medium (10-20%) |
| size |
common:
very fine (0.04-0.1mm), fine (0.1-0.2mm)
sporadic:
medium (0.2-0.5mm)
|
| roundness |
angular |
| sorting |
scarce-serial |
| maximum grain size |
0.3 |
| |
Mineral Inclusions
|
| prevalent |
Monocrystalline Quartz |
| sporadic |
Polycrystalline Quartz, Orthoclase |
| rare |
Plagioclase, Muscovite |
| |
Rock Fragments
|
| sporadic |
Sedimentary (Chert) |
| |
Other Compositional & Textural Features
|
| common |
Microfossils, Micritic Clots |
| quartz grain prevailing roundness |
angular |
| |
Coating / Slipping
|
| thickness |
|
| conservation status |
|
| |
Texture
|
| homogenity |
not homogeneous (patchy) patchy: frequent |
| optical activity |
inactive |
| color |
|
| degree of sintering |
well sintered |
| |
Porosity
|
| abundance of voids/pores |
medium (10-30%) |
| orientation |
partial |
| prevalent |
tiny (<0.01mm), small (0.01-0.1mm), medium (0.1-1mm), irregular, rounded, vesicular, cast |
| |
Composition
|
| clay composition |
ca-rich |
| |
Interpretation
|
| estimated firing temperature |
over fired |
| modelling of raw clay |
use of wheel |
| refinement of raw clay |
bad |
| refinement of temper |
sieved natural sand |
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