| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
fabric type |
VEL-C-2
|
ware |
Coarse Wares |
supposed site of production |
Velia |
certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: quite certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
reddish yellow, irregular; many fine white, some red and grey inclusions |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
5YR6/8 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
3%; void form: vughy; channel; void length: 0.08-0.4 |
inclusions |
15%, length: 0.02-0.6 |
sorting |
moderately sorted sand |
|
Inclusions
|
quartz |
very frequent, angular, spherical, clear; white, 0.08-1.2 |
mica |
infrequent, angular, spherical, white, 0.02-0.04 |
reddish inclusions |
infrequent, rounded, spherical - subspherical, reddish brown, 0.04-0.4 |
grey inclusions |
infrequent, rounded, spherical - subspherical, grey, 0.08-0.25 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
vessel form type |
Pot |
fragmentation |
rim |
surface description |
coarse |
publication |
Gassner et al. 2014, 223 |
|
Context Data
|
site of discovery |
Velia Fortification, Tower B2, 1974 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
applied method for sample analysis |
thin section and heavy mineral analysis |
analysis author |
Roman Sauer |
publication (of analysis) |
Gassner et al. 2014, 238-39 |
petrographic mineralogical type |
RVGK01d |
sample taken |
September 1989, by Verena Gassner, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University |
sample no |
M 3/39 |
status of sample |
thin section and heavy mineral analysis surplus available |
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