| | 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 |
brown and reddish grey; irregular, numerous fine to very large white inclusions, many medium-sized to large dark gray particles |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
7.5YR5/2, 5YR5/2 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
hardness |
very hard |
porosity |
8%; void form: vughy; channel; void length: 0.04-2.4 |
inclusions |
25%, length: 0.04-2.5 |
sorting |
unsorted |
|
Inclusions
|
quartz |
very frequent, angular, spherical - subspherical, clear; white, 0.08-1 |
mica |
infrequent, angular, spherical, white, 0.04 |
reddish inclusions |
infrequent, rounded, spherical - subspherical, rust coloured, 0.4-2 |
grey inclusions |
very frequent, angular, spherical, dark grey, 0.4-1.4 |
white inclusions |
infrequent, rounded, elongate, yellowish white, soft, 0.2-0.6 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
vessel form type |
Tile (cross tile) |
fragmentation |
rim |
surface description |
coarse |
|
Context Data
|
site of discovery |
Velia Late Archaic mudbrick houses beneath Insula II, room 10, trench 6/91 D, level 14 |
registration code of context |
628/91 |
registration code of object |
628/91 |
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 8/49 |
status of sample |
sample surplus, thin section and heavy mineral analysis surplus available |
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