| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| fabric type |
ISC-CBM-1
|
| ware |
Ceramic Building Materials |
| supposed site of production |
Ischia |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
light brown, irregular; many fine white and dark shining inclusions |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
7.5YR6/3 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
2.5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0,04-0,08 |
| inclusions |
5%, length: 0,04-0,4 |
| sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
frequent, angular, spherical, clear; white, 0.08-0,2 |
|
mica |
infrequent, 0.25 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
very frequent, rounded, spherical, white, 0.12-0.4 |
|
reddish inclusions |
singular, angular, subspherical, light red, 0,4 |
|
black inclusions |
riddled with, angular, spherical, black |
|
brown inclusions |
frequent, angular, spherical, rusty brown, 0,12-0.28 |
|
foraminifera |
frequent, well rounded, spherical, white, 0,04-0,08 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| vessel form type |
Tile |
| |
Context Data
|
| site of discovery |
Velia
Late Archaic mudbrick houses beneath Insula II |
| registration code of context |
938/92 |
| registration code of object |
938/92 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| applied method for sample analysis |
thin section and heavy mineral analysis |
| analysis author |
Roman Sauer |
| petrographic mineralogical type |
RVZ03B |
| sample taken |
November 1993, by Verena Gassner, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University |
| sample no |
M 8/12 |
| status of sample |
sample surplus and heavy mineral analysis surplus available |
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