| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | petrography | | |
fabric type |
AKR-A-1
|
ware |
Transport Amphorae |
supposed site of production |
Agrigento |
certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: quite certain, archaeological: quite certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
Light grey-greenish clay, fine with a good percentage of porosity and few visible inclusions of reddish colour and small size |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
10 YR 7/2 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
void form: Holes; Vughy (sporadic); void length: 0.04-0.60 |
inclusions |
length: 0.04-0.24-28 |
sorting |
well sorted silt |
|
Inclusions
|
quartz |
infrequent, subangular, subspherical; spherical, Greyish/whitish/transparent, 0.04-0.16 |
mica |
frequent, angular, subelongate, Shiny, 0.02-04 |
calciumcarbonate |
infrequent, subrounded; rounded, subspherical, whitish/yellowish, 0.08-0.16 |
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
frequent, subrounded; rounded, subspherical; spherical, yellowish, 0.02-04-0.16-20 |
black iron oxide concretions |
sporadic, rounded; subrounded, spherical, black, 0.04-0.20 |
red iron oxide concretions |
sporadic, subrounded; subangular, subspherical, dark red, 0.04-0.20 |
more inclusions2 |
frequent, rounded, subspherical; spherical, Orange/dark orange, 0.04-0.28 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | petrography | | |
vessel form type |
Amphora Western Greek |
fragmentation |
peg |
dimensions |
diameter: 4.2 (peg)cm (bottom); height: 7cm |
surface description |
slipped pale brown 2.5 Y 8/2 |
chronology of object |
Greek-Archaic-Late Archaic late 6th-early 5th c. BC |
publication |
Baldoni et al. 2019, 115, fig. 12,1 |
drawing |
|
|
Context Data
|
site of discovery |
Agrigento Quartiere artigianale Porta V |
registration code of context |
QAV 19.15 |
registration code of object |
QAV 19.15.7 |
chronology of context |
late 6th-early 5th c. BC |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | petrography | | |
applied method for sample analysis |
thin section |
analysis author |
Montana/Randazzo |
sample taken |
October 2019, by Babette Bechtold, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University |
sample no |
M 208/47 |
status of sample |
whole sample available |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | petrography | | |
sample number |
M 208/47 |
inventory number |
QAV 19.15.7 |
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 |
prevalent:
very fine (0.04-0.1mm)
sporadic:
fine (0.1-0.2mm)
rare:
medium (0.2-0.5mm)
|
roundness |
angular |
sorting |
scarce-serial |
maximum grain size |
0.4 |
|
Mineral Inclusions
|
prevalent |
Monocrystalline Quartz |
sporadic |
Polycrystalline Quartz, Orthoclase, Plagioclase, Accessory & Heavy Minerals (Iron oxides) |
rare |
Muscovite |
|
Newly Formed Phases
|
sporadic |
secondary calcite |
|
Other Compositional & Textural Features
|
common |
Microfossils, Micritic Clots |
quartz grain prevailing roundness |
angular |
|
Coating / Slipping
|
thickness |
|
conservation status |
|
|
Texture
|
homogenity |
moderately homogeneous patchy: sporadic |
optical activity |
inactive |
color |
|
degree of sintering |
well sintered |
|
Porosity
|
abundance of voids/pores |
low (<10%) |
orientation |
none |
prevalent |
small (0.01-0.1mm), medium (0.1-1mm), irregular, rounded, cast |
rare |
channels |
|
Composition
|
clay composition |
ca-rich |
|
Interpretation
|
estimated firing temperature |
well fired |
modelling of raw clay |
use of wheel |
refinement of raw clay |
acceptable |
refinement of temper |
sieved natural sand |
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