| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
fabric type |
PAE-C-1
|
ware |
Coarse Wares |
supposed site of production |
Paestum |
certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: quite certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
reddish yellow, irregular; numerous quartz particles, some dark red, reddish brown and gray inclusions |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
5YR6/8 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
6%; void form: vughy; void length: 0,08-0,8 |
inclusions |
15%, length: 0,02-0,5 |
sorting |
moderately sorted sand |
|
Inclusions
|
quartz |
very frequent, angular, spherical - subspherical, clear, 0.08-0,8 |
mica |
frequent, angular, spherical, white, 0,02-0,04 |
calciumcarbonate |
infrequent, rounded, spherical - subspherical, white, 0,08-0,3 |
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
infrequent, well rounded, spherical - subspherical, white, 0,04-0,4 |
red iron oxide concretions |
infrequent, angular, spherical, rusty brown, 0,3-0,6 |
grey inclusions |
infrequent, angular, spherical, dark grey, 0,12-0,28 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
vessel form type |
Closed Vessel |
fragmentation |
body |
surface description |
coarse exterior: smoothed |
|
Context Data
|
site of discovery |
Velia Late Archaic mudbrick houses beneath Insula II, trench 3/91 |
registration code of context |
312/91 |
registration code of object |
312/91 |
chronology of context |
Gassner 2003, phase Ib |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
applied method for sample analysis |
thin section and heavy mineral analysis |
analysis author |
Roman Sauer |
petrographic mineralogical type |
RVGK02b |
sample taken |
July 1996, by Verena Gassner, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University |
sample no |
M 3/91 |
status of sample |
sample surplus, thin section and heavy mineral analysis surplus available |
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