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			| 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
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				| 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
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				| registration code of context | 618/91 | 
				
		
					
				| registration code of object | 628/91-11 | 
				
		
					
				| chronology of context | Gassner 2003, phase Iia | 
		
		
	
	 
 
		
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				| 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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