| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
fabric type |
CAL-A-1
|
fabric previously published as |
A 21 |
ware |
Transport Amphorae |
supposed site of production |
Calabria |
certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: quite certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
very light brown, granular; numerous fine to medium-sized dark brown inclusions, some large white inclusions, mica |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
10YR7/4 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0,04-1,6 |
inclusions |
9%, length: 0,04-0,8 |
sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
|
Inclusions
|
quartz |
riddled with, angular, spherical, clear, 0.04-0,8 |
mica |
riddled with, 0.04-0.24 |
black inclusions |
infrequent, angular, spherical, black shining |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
vessel form type |
Amphora Western Greek amphora, Gassner's rim 3 |
fragmentation |
rim |
dimensions |
diameter: 16cm (rim) |
surface description |
coarse |
chronology of object |
Greek-Classic |
publication |
Gassner 2003, cat. no. Ia.44, pl. 4 |
|
Context Data
|
site of discovery |
Velia Late Archaic mudbrick houses beneath Insula II, trench 10-2/88 |
registration code of context |
32/88 |
registration code of object |
32/88-11 |
chronology of context |
Gassner 2003, Phase Ia |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
applied method for sample analysis |
thin section and heavy mineral analysis |
analysis author |
Roman Sauer |
petrographic mineralogical type |
RVA010 |
sample taken |
September 1996, by Verena Gassner, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University |
sample no |
M 6/110 |
status of sample |
thin section and heavy mineral analysis surplus available |
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