| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
fabric type |
NW-LUC-A-2
|
ware |
Transport Amphorae |
supposed site of production |
North Western Lucania |
certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: quite certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
reddish yellow; fine red and white inclusions, medium-sized white inclusions, quartz, mica |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
5YR6/6 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
15%; void form: vughy; void length: 0,04-0,4 |
inclusions |
20%, length: 0,08-1,2 |
sorting |
unsorted |
|
Inclusions
|
quartz |
riddled with, angular, spherical, white; clear, 0.08-0,4 |
mica |
singular |
calciumcarbonate |
singular, 0.12-1.2 |
reddish inclusions |
infrequent, rounded, subelongate, red, 0,2-1 |
black inclusions |
singular, rounded, spherical, black |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
vessel form type |
Amphora Western Greek |
fragmentation |
body |
surface description |
coarse |
chronology of object |
Greek-Classic |
|
Context Data
|
site of discovery |
Velia Late Archaic mudbrick houses beneath Insula II, trench 3/91 |
registration code of context |
312/91 |
registration code of object |
312/91-7 |
chronology of context |
Gassner 2003, phase Ib |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
applied method for sample analysis |
thin section and heavy mineral analysis |
analysis author |
Roman Sauer |
petrographic mineralogical type |
RVA002b |
sample taken |
July 1994, by Verena Gassner, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University |
sample no |
M 6/37 |
status of sample |
no remains |
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