| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
fabric type |
CAL-A-1
|
ware |
Transport Amphorae |
supposed site of production |
Calabria |
certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
pink, granular; dark red inclusions, some white inclusions, some mica |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
7.5YR7/4 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
porosity |
3.5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0,08 |
inclusions |
20%, length: 0,28-0,48 |
sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
|
Inclusions
|
quartz |
riddled with, angular, spherical, clear, 0.4 |
mica |
singular |
reddish inclusions |
singular, rounded, spherical, 0,48 |
black inclusions |
infrequent, rounded, subelongate, black |
foraminifera |
singular, shell, white, 0,28 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
vessel form type |
Amphora Western Greek amphora, Gassner's rim 3 |
fragmentation |
fragmentation not specified |
surface description |
coarse |
publication |
Di Sandro 1986, 40, sg 90, pl. 7; Gassner 2003, 194, tab. 16 |
|
Context Data
|
site of discovery |
Ischia Scarico Gosetti |
registration code of object |
Pithekoussai, sg 90 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
petrographic mineralogical type |
RISA 2 |
sample taken |
July 1995, by Verena Gassner, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University |
sample no |
M 37/7 |
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