| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| fabric type |
ION-ADR-C-1
|
| ware |
Coarse Wares |
| supposed site of production |
Ionic-Adriatic region |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: not certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
reddish yellow, granular; many fine and medium-sized white inclusions, some light and dark red inclusions, mica |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
5YR6/6 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
4%; void form: vughy; void length: 0,28 |
| inclusions |
13%, length: 1,2 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
infrequent, angular, subelongate, clear, 0.04-0,4 |
|
mica |
infrequent |
|
calciumcarbonate |
frequent, rounded, spherical, white, 0.04-0.6 |
|
reddish inclusions |
frequent, rounded, subelongate, rust coloured, 0,08-1 |
|
grey inclusions |
infrequent, angular, spherical, metallic grey, 0,04-0,8 |
|
foraminifera |
infrequent, rounded, elongate, white, 0.12-0.2 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| vessel form type |
Closed Vessel |
| fragmentation |
body |
| surface description |
coarse |
| |
Context Data
|
| site of discovery |
Velia
Late Archaic mudbrick houses beneath Insula II |
| registration code of context |
10/88 |
| registration code of object |
10/88 |
| chronology of context |
Gassner 2003, phase IIb |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| applied method for sample analysis |
thin section and heavy mineral analysis |
| analysis author |
Roman Sauer |
| petrographic mineralogical type |
RVGK05b |
| sample taken |
July 1996, by Verena Gassner, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University |
| sample no |
M 3/68 |
| status of sample |
sample surplus, thin section and heavy mineral analysis surplus available |
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