PAE-A-4

fabric description

object data

archaeometry

fabric type	PAE-A-4
ware	Transport Amphorae
supposed site of production	Paestum
certainty of arguments	archaeometric: quite certain
visual excamination of fresh break	brown, fine; many fine white elongated inclusions
colour of freshly broken section (munsell)	7.5YR5/8
texture of freshly broken surface	fine
hardness	hard
porosity	2%; void form: vughy; void length: 0,12-0,24
inclusions	7%, length: 0,2-0,4
sorting	bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt
	Inclusions
quartz	frequent, angular, spherical, clear, 0.2-0,4
mica	singular
grey inclusions	infrequent, angular, subelongate
foraminifera	very frequent, rounded, spherical, white to yellowish white, 0,2-0,32

vessel form type	Amphora MGS II (A)
fragmentation	body
surface description	coarse
chronology of object	Greek-Classic
	Context Data
site of discovery	Velia

applied method for sample analysis	thin section and heavy mineral analysis
analysis author	Roman Sauer
petrographic mineralogical type	RVA003a
sample taken	1994, by Verena Gassner, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University
sample no	M 6/99
status of sample	sample surplus, thin section and heavy mineral analysis surplus available

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Distribution of fabric type
“PAE-A-4”

Velia Velia Selinunte / Selinus Paestum Paestum Paestum

production sampling

Representative sample for
“PAE-A-4”

M 6/88

There are 2 more samples assigned to fabric type
“PAE-A-4”.

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Anfore e ceramica acroma dall'avamposto militare di Monte Turcisi (CT). Uno studio preliminare sulle provenienze: Introduzione Il modesto rilievo collinare alto 303 m, denominato ?Monte Turcisi?, si trova al confine settentrionale della Piana di Catania e ricade oggi nel comune di Castel Di Iudica, in provincia della città etnea. Le strutture di interesse archeologico su di esso affiornati riguardano principalmente i resti relatvi ad una fortezza militare di epoca greca e di un eremo del XVII sec. d.C.

Inclusions

Context Data