VEL-A-2

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	light red, granular; singular large quartz particles, few medium-sized white and black inclusions, mica
colour of freshly broken section (munsell)	2.5YR6/8
texture of freshly broken surface	granular
hardness	hard
porosity	10%; void form: vesicular; void length: 0.04-0.4
inclusions	7.5%, length: 0.12-1.6
sorting	bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt
	Inclusions
quartz	very frequent, angular, subelongate, white; clear, 0.12-1.6
mica	frequent
reddish inclusions	infrequent, rounded, spherical, red, 0.2
black inclusions	riddled with, rounded, subelongate, black
foraminifera	infrequent, rounded, subelongate, white, 0.4

vessel form type	Amphora Western Greek amphora
fragmentation	rim
surface description	coarse
chronology of object	Greek-Classic-Early Classic
publication	Gassner 2003, 372
	Context Data
site of discovery	Velia Lower City, Late Archaic mudbrick houses beneath Insula II, trench 4/91
registration code of context	427/91
registration code of object	427/91-9
chronology of context	Gassner 2003, phase IIa

applied method for sample analysis	thin section and heavy mineral analysis
analysis author	Roman Sauer
publication (of analysis)	Gassner et al. 2014, 251
petrographic mineralogical type	RVA001b
sample taken	July 1994, by Verena Gassner, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University
sample no	M 6/69
status of sample	sample surplus and thin section surplus available

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Distribution of fabric type
“VEL-A-2”

production sampling

Representative sample for
“VEL-A-2”

M 6/84

There are 18 more samples assigned to fabric type
“VEL-A-2”.

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Context Data