| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
fabric type |
PAE-A-3
|
fabric previously published as |
IA 9 |
ware |
Transport Amphorae |
supposed site of production |
Paestum |
certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: quite certain, archaeological: quite certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
red, granular; many fine white inclusions, some mid-sized black particles |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
2.5YR5/8 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
2%; void form: chambers; void length: 0,12 |
inclusions |
6%, length: 0,12 |
sorting |
poorly sorted silt |
|
Inclusions
|
quartz |
frequent, angular, spherical, clear, 0.12 |
calciumcarbonate |
very frequent, rounded, spherical, white, 0.12 |
black inclusions |
frequent, rounded, spherical, black |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
vessel form type |
Amphora MGS II (A) |
fragmentation |
fragmentation not specified |
surface description |
coarse, remains of thin white slip |
publication |
Di Sandro 1986, sg 137 |
|
Context Data
|
site of discovery |
Ischia Scarico Gosetti |
registration code of object |
SG 137 |
chronology of context |
disturbed context |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
applied method for sample analysis |
thin section and heavy mineral analysis |
analysis author |
Roman Sauer |
petrographic mineralogical type |
RISA 8 |
sample taken |
July 1995, by Verena Gassner, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University |
sample no |
M 37/18 |
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