| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
fabric type |
COR-A-1
|
ware |
Transport Amphorae |
supposed site of production |
Corinth |
certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
very pale brown, subconchoidal; large red and black inclusions |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
10YR7/3 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
subconchoidal |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
2.5%; void form: channel; void length: 0,2-2 |
inclusions |
15%, length: 0,12-5,2 |
sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
|
Inclusions
|
quartz |
infrequent, angular, subelongate, clear, 0,4 |
mica |
infrequent, angular, spherical, white, 0,04 |
calciumcarbonate |
frequent, rounded, spherical - elongate, 0.6-1,8 |
reddish inclusions |
frequent, rounded, spherical - subspherical, rust coloured, 0,2-0,8 |
black inclusions |
frequent, very angular, spherical - subelongate, black, 0,08-1,5 |
brown inclusions |
very frequent, very angular, spherical - subelongate, rusty brown, 0,2-3 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
vessel form type |
Amphora fragment body |
fragmentation |
body |
surface description |
coarse |
chronology of object |
Greek-Classic |
|
Context Data
|
site of discovery |
Velia Late Archaic mudbrick houses beneath Insula II, trench 1/88 |
registration code of context |
2/88 |
registration code of object |
2/88- |
chronology of context |
Gassner 2003, phase IIb |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
applied method for sample analysis |
thin section and heavy mineral analysis |
analysis author |
Roman Sauer |
petrographic mineralogical type |
RVA04a |
sample taken |
July 1994, by Verena Gassner, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University |
sample no |
M 6/34 |
status of sample |
thin section surplus available |
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