| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
fabric type |
VEL-A-2
|
ware |
Transport Amphorae |
supposed site of production |
Velia |
certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
reddish brown, granular; many quartz particles |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
5YR5/8 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
5%; void form: channel; void length: 0.12-1.2 |
inclusions |
20%, length: 0.16-1.4 |
sorting |
unsorted |
|
Inclusions
|
quartz |
riddled with, angular, subelongate, white; clear, 0.16-1.4 |
mica |
infrequent |
reddish inclusions |
frequent, rounded, subelongate, red, 0.08-0.4 |
black inclusions |
riddled with, rounded, spherical, black |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
vessel form type |
Amphora |
fragmentation |
body |
surface description |
coarse |
chronology of object |
Greek-Classic |
publication |
Gassner et al. 2014, 240 |
|
Context Data
|
site of discovery |
Velia Lower City, crossroad, trench 1/89 |
registration code of context |
38/89 |
registration code of object |
38/89 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
applied method for sample analysis |
thin section and heavy mineral analysis |
analysis author |
Roman Sauer |
publication (of analysis) |
Gassner et al. 2014, 248-51 |
petrographic mineralogical type |
RVA001a |
sample taken |
July 1994, by Verena Gassner, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University |
sample no |
M 6/30 |
status of sample |
thin section surplus available |
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