| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| fabric type |
ISC-CBM-5
|
| ware |
Ceramic Building Materials |
| supposed site of production |
Ischia |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: not certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
white, hard, granular; numerous large dark gray inclusions, sporadic brown and white particles |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
10YR8/2 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
3.5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0,12-0,6 |
| inclusions |
20%, length: 0,2-1,2 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
frequent, angular, spherical, clear; white, 0.2-0,8 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
riddled with, well rounded, spherical, white, 0,02-0,04 |
|
grey inclusions |
frequent, rounded, subelongate, dark grey, 0,28-1,2 |
|
brown inclusions |
frequent, angular, spherical, brown, 0,2-1,2 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| vessel form type |
Tile
calypter |
| fragmentation |
fragmentation not specified |
| surface description |
coarse |
| |
Context Data
|
| site of discovery |
Velia
Theatre |
| registration code of context |
218/93 |
| registration code of object |
218/93 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| applied method for sample analysis |
thin section and heavy mineral analysis |
| analysis author |
Roman Sauer |
| petrographic mineralogical type |
RVZ06 |
| sample taken |
July 1996, by Maria Trapichler, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University |
| sample no |
M 8/21 |
| status of sample |
sample surplus, thin section and heavy mineral analysis surplus available |
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