| | 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 |
yellowish red, irregular; many medium-sized to large black particles, some large white inclusions, transparent quartz |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
5YR5/6 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
5%; void form: channel; void length: 0,12-0,4 |
| inclusions |
20%, length: 0,04-1,4 |
| sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
very frequent, angular, spherical, clear; white, 0.25-1,2 |
|
reddish inclusions |
singular, angular, spherical, rust coloured, 0,28 |
|
black inclusions |
frequent, angular, spherical, black |
|
brown inclusions |
frequent, well rounded, spherical, very dark brown, 0,4-1,6 |
|
white inclusions |
frequent, well rounded, subspherical, white (pumice stone), 0,04-0,8 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| vessel form type |
Tile |
| surface description |
coarse |
| |
Context Data
|
| site of discovery |
Velia
Late Archaic mudbrick houses beneath Insula II |
| registration code of context |
1406/92 |
| registration code of object |
1406/92 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| applied method for sample analysis |
thin section and heavy mineral analysis |
| analysis author |
Roman Sauer |
| petrographic mineralogical type |
RVZ03A |
| sample taken |
November 1993, by Verena Gassner, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University |
| sample no |
M 8/14 |
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