| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
fabric type |
PAE-A-1
|
fabric previously published as |
A 27 |
ware |
Transport Amphorae |
supposed site of production |
Paestum |
certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
reddish yellow, granular; sporadic large white, red and dark inclusions, few fine white inclusions |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
5YR6/6 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
2.5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0,12-0,6 |
inclusions |
15%, length: 0,16-1,2 |
sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
|
Inclusions
|
quartz |
very frequent, angular, subelongate, clear, 0.24-1,2 |
mica |
frequent |
reddish inclusions |
frequent, rounded, subelongate, red, 0,4-1,2 |
black inclusions |
frequent, rounded, subelongate, black |
foraminifera |
frequent, rounded, subelongate, white, 0,16-1,2 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
vessel form type |
Amphora Western Greek amphora, toe 1 |
fragmentation |
base |
surface description |
coarse |
chronology of object |
Greek-Classic-Early Classic |
publication |
Gassner 2003, cat. no. IIa.216, pl. 26 |
|
Context Data
|
site of discovery |
Velia Late Archaic mudbrick houses beneath Insula II, trench 1/88 |
registration code of context |
3/88 |
registration code of object |
3/88-23 |
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 |
RVA003 |
sample taken |
July 1994, by Verena Gassner, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University |
sample no |
M 6/72 |
status of sample |
thin section surplus available |
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