| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
fabric type |
VEL-CBM-4
|
ware |
Ceramic Building Materials |
supposed site of production |
Velia |
certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
reddish yellow and dark reddish grey, hackly; numerous fine to very large white particles, some large dark grey inclusions |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
5YR5/6 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
hardness |
very hard |
porosity |
10%; void form: vughy; void length: 0.12-4 |
inclusions |
20%, length: 0.04-3.2 |
sorting |
unsorted |
|
Inclusions
|
quartz |
very frequent, angular, spherical, clear; white, 0.12-2.4 |
mica |
frequent |
reddish inclusions |
inrrequent, rounded, subelongate, dark red, 0.12-1.6 |
grey inclusions |
frequent, angular, elongate, dark grey, 0.24-3.2 |
brown inclusions |
frequent, angular, spherical, brown, 0.4-2.4 |
white inclusions |
infrequent, rounded, elongate, white, 0.2-1 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
vessel form type |
Tile (cross tile) |
fragmentation |
fragmentation not specified |
surface description |
wiped |
|
Context Data
|
site of discovery |
Velia Late Archaic mudbrick houses beneath Insula II, room 11, trench 6/92, level 4 |
registration code of context |
6002/92 |
registration code of object |
6002/92-36 |
chronology of context |
Gassner 2003, phase IIa |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
applied method for sample analysis |
thin section and heavy mineral analysis |
analysis author |
Roman Sauer |
petrographic mineralogical type |
RVZ01 |
sample taken |
September 1996, by Verena Gassner, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University |
sample no |
M 8/47 |
status of sample |
sample surplus, thin section and heavy mineral analysis surplus available |
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