| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
fabric type |
CAL-A-1
|
ware |
Transport Amphorae |
supposed site of production |
Calabria |
certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: quite certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
pink, granular; numerous white and dark inclusions, mica |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
7.5YR7/4 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
5%; void form: vughy; channel; void length: 0,04-0,2 |
inclusions |
20%, length: 0,04-0,6 |
sorting |
unsorted |
|
Inclusions
|
quartz |
frequent, angular, spherical, clear, 0,16-0,6 |
mica |
very frequent, angular, spherical - elongate, white; dark, 0,04-0,2 |
reddish inclusions |
frequent, rounded, spherical, rust coloured, 0,08-0,6 |
black inclusions |
frequent, rounded, spherical - subsperical, black, 0,04-0,2 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
vessel form type |
Amphora Western Greek amphora |
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 III c, 9115; 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 |
RVA010 |
sample taken |
July 1994, by Verena Gassner, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University |
sample no |
M 6/97 |
status of sample |
thin section surplus available |
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