| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | petrography | | |
| fabric type |
AKR-C-1
|
| ware |
Coarse Wares |
| supposed site of production |
Agrigento |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: quite certain, archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
Light grey clay with few visible inclutions of red and white colour and of medium size |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
5 Y 7/1 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
void form: vughy; channel; void length: 0.08-1.11 |
| inclusions |
length: 0,04-0.40-83 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
calciumcarbonate |
rare, rounded, spherical, yellowish white, 0.08 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
very frequent, well rounded; rounded; subangular, very spherical, white/yellowish, 0.04-0.48 |
|
red iron oxide concretions |
frequent, well rounded; angular, subspherical; elongate, dark red, 0.04-08-0.28; 2.80 (?) ca. (singular) |
|
more inclusions2 |
frequent, subrounded, spherical; subspherical, orange, 0.04-0.20 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | petrography | | |
| vessel form type |
Mortar |
| fragmentation |
rim |
| dimensions |
diameter: 36cm (rim); height: 4cm |
| surface description |
pale brown 2.5 Y 8/3 |
| chronology of object |
Greek
Late Archaic-Classical Period |
| drawing |
 |
| |
Context Data
|
| site of discovery |
Agrigento
Area a Sud del Tempio di Zeus |
| registration code of context |
AG13/191 |
| registration code of object |
AG13/191/13 |
| 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 |
May 2018, by Babette Bechtold, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University |
| sample no |
M 209/2 |
| status of sample |
whole sample available |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | petrography | | |
| sample number |
M 209/2 |
| inventory number |
AG13/191/13 |
| 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), coarse (0.5-2mm)
|
| roundness |
angular |
| sorting |
scarce-serial |
| maximum grain size |
0.4 |
| |
Mineral Inclusions
|
| prevalent |
Monocrystalline Quartz |
| sporadic |
Polycrystalline Quartz, Muscovite |
| rare |
Orthoclase, Plagioclase |
| |
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 |
homogeneous |
| optical activity |
inactive |
| color |
|
| degree of sintering |
well sintered |
| |
Porosity
|
| abundance of voids/pores |
medium (10-30%) |
| orientation |
none |
| prevalent |
small (0.01-0.1mm), medium (0.1-1mm), irregular, rounded, cast |
| |
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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