| | 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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