| | 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 |
pink, granular; some dark and few white fine to middle-sized inclusions |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
7.5YR7/4 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| vessel form type |
Amphora Western Greek amphora, Gassner's rim 3 |
| fragmentation |
rim |
| dimensions |
diameter: 13cm (rim) |
| surface description |
slipped very pale brown, 10YR3/4 |
| chronology of object |
Greek-Classic |
| publication |
Gassner 1994, cat. no. 13, fig.146; Gassner 1999, cat. no. 22, fig. 4; Gassner 2003, cat. no. Iia. 211 pl. 25 |
| |
Context Data
|
| site of discovery |
Velia Late Archaic mudbrick houses beneath Insula II, trench 6/91 |
| registration code of context |
618/91 |
| registration code of object |
628/91-11 |
| 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 |
RVA010 |
| sample taken |
November 1993, by Verena Gassner, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University |
| sample no |
M 6/13 |
| status of sample |
thin section and heavy mineral analysis surplus available |
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