| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
fabric type |
CAL-A-1
|
ware |
Transport Amphorae |
supposed site of production |
Calabria |
certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: not certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
pale yellow, irregular; numerous medium-sized white inclusions, some fine black inclusions |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
2.5Y7/4 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
10%; void form: vughy; void length: 0,2 |
inclusions |
25%, length: 0,2-1,2 |
sorting |
well sorted sand in different compositions |
|
Inclusions
|
quartz |
riddled with, angular, subelongate, white; clear, 0.2-1,2 |
mica |
infrequent |
reddish inclusions |
frequent, rounded, spherical, red, 0,2 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
vessel form type |
Amphora Western Greek amphora, A-MGR 2 |
fragmentation |
body |
surface description |
coarse |
chronology of object |
Greek-Classic |
|
Context Data
|
site of discovery |
Velia Acropolis, archaic houses on the northern edge A.12 |
registration code of object |
HL II 1, 9171; excavation M. Napoli 1975, box 10 bag 2 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
applied method for sample analysis |
thin section and heavy mineral analysis |
analysis author |
Roman Sauer |
petrographic mineralogical type |
RVA010h |
sample taken |
July 1994, by Verena Gassner, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University |
sample no |
M 6/95 |
status of sample |
sample surplus and thin section surplus available |
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