| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
fabric type |
COR-A-3
|
ware |
Transport Amphorae |
supposed site of production |
Corinth |
certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: not certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
very pale brown, smooth; large reddish brown and white inclusions |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
10YR7/4 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
smooth |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
10%; void form: vughy; void length: 0,16 |
inclusions |
15%, length: 0,08-1,4 |
sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
|
Inclusions
|
quartz |
infrequent, angular, subelongate, white; clear, 0,16 |
mica |
singular, angular, spherical, white, 0,04 |
calciumcarbonate |
infrequent, rounded, spherical - subelongate, white, 0.24-1 |
reddish inclusions |
very frequent, rounded, spherical - subelongate, light red, 0,08-3,4 |
black inclusions |
infrequent, angular, spherical - elongate, black, 0,08-0,4 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
vessel form type |
Amphora |
fragmentation |
body |
surface description |
slipped very pale brown, 10YR8/3 |
chronology of object |
Greek-Classic |
|
Context Data
|
site of discovery |
Velia Late Archaic mudbrick houses beneath Insula II, trench 4/90 |
registration code of context |
410/90 |
registration code of object |
410/90 |
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 |
RVA04C |
sample taken |
July 1994, by Verena Gassner, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University |
sample no |
M 6/61 |
status of sample |
sample surplus and thin section surplus available |
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