| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
fabric type |
AKR-A-1
|
ware |
Transport Amphorae |
supposed site of production |
Agrigento |
certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: certain, archaeological: quite certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
Pinkish-brown clay with visible inclusions of white colour, low diffused and of small-medium size |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
5 YR 6/6 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
void form: Vughy; channel (sporadic); chamber (sporadic); void length: 0.08-1.19-23 |
inclusions |
length: 0.04-1.19 |
sorting |
unsorted |
|
Inclusions
|
mica |
infrequent |
calciumcarbonate |
frequent, subrounded; angular, elongate; subspherical; spherical, white, 0.08-1.15 |
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
frequent, subrounded; angular, elongate; very elongate, white/yellowish, 0.08-1.19 |
reddish inclusions |
sporadic, subrounded; well rounded, subelongate; spherical, Dark and Light red, 0.20-0.56 |
black inclusions |
rare, subangular; rounded, very spherical, black, 0.04-0.08 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
vessel form type |
Amphora Western Greek, Gassner rim 7 |
fragmentation |
rim |
dimensions |
diameter: 12.4cm (rim); height: 6cm |
surface description |
slipped pale brown 2.5 Y 8/2 |
chronology of object |
Greek late 5th-mid 4th c. BC |
drawing |
|
|
Context Data
|
site of discovery |
Agrigento Area a Sud del Tempio di Zeus |
registration code of context |
AG13/337 |
registration code of object |
AG13/337/1 |
chronology of context |
late 5th-4th c. BC |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
applied method for sample analysis |
thin section, chemical analysis |
analysis author |
Montana/Randazzo |
sample taken |
May 2018, by Babette Bechtold, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University |
sample no |
M 208/1 |
status of sample |
whole sample available |
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