| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
fabric type |
PAE-A-1
|
ware |
Transport Amphorae |
supposed site of production |
Paestum |
certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
light brown, granular; sporadic large white, red and dark inclusions, few fine white inclusions, mica |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
7.5YR6/4 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
20%; void form: vughy; void length: 0,2 |
inclusions |
15%, length: 0,12-2,2 |
sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
|
Inclusions
|
quartz |
very frequent, angular, subelongate, clear, 0.12-0,6 |
mica |
frequent |
reddish inclusions |
frequent, rounded, subelongate, red, 0,2-1,4 |
black inclusions |
infrequent, rounded, subelongate, black |
foraminifera |
riddled with, rounded, subelongate, white, 0,2-2,2 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
vessel form type |
Amphora Western Greek amphora, Gassner's rim 4 |
fragmentation |
rim |
surface description |
coarse |
chronology of object |
Greek-Classic |
|
Context Data
|
site of discovery |
Velia Crossroad, trench 1/89. |
registration code of context |
79/89 |
registration code of object |
79/89-115 |
chronology of context |
disturbed context |
| | 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 6/74 |
status of sample |
sample surplus and thin section surplus available |
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