| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| fabric type |
CHI-A-2
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Chios |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
light reddish brown, granular; numerous fine to medium-sized white inclusions, some large rusty red inclusions |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
5YR6/4 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
4.5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0,12-0,44 |
| inclusions |
8%, length: 0,08-1,2 |
| sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
frequent, angular, spherical, white, 0.12-0,6 |
|
mica |
frequent |
|
calciumcarbonate |
infrequent, rounded, subelongate, yellowish white, 0.2-1.2 |
|
reddish inclusions |
frequent, angular, spherical, rust coloured, 0,24-1,2 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| vessel form type |
Amphora
Chian type |
| fragmentation |
body |
| surface description |
coarse |
| chronology of object |
Greek-Classic |
| |
Context Data
|
| site of discovery |
Velia
Late Archaic mudbrick houses beneath Insula II, trench 102/88 |
| registration code of context |
28/88 |
| registration code of object |
28/88 |
| chronology of context |
Gassner 2003, phase IIa |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| applied method for sample analysis |
thin section and heavy mineral analysis |
| analysis author |
Roman Sauer |
| petrographic mineralogical type |
RVA006A |
| sample taken |
September 1996, by Verena Gassner, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University |
| sample no |
M 6/106 |
| status of sample |
sample surplus, thin section and heavy mineral analysis surplus available |
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