CAL-A-6

CAL-A-6, M 80/2, 25x

CAL-A-6, M 80/2, 16x

CAL-A-6, M 80/2, 8x

fabric description

object data

archaeometry

fabric type	CAL-A-6
fabric previously published as	CSV A
ware	Transport Amphorae
certainty of arguments	archaeological: not certain
visual excamination of fresh break	brown, irregular
colour of freshly broken section (munsell)	10YR5/3, core: gray
texture of freshly broken surface	irregular
hardness	hard
porosity	2,5%; void form: channel; vughy; void length: 0,04-0,8
inclusions	10%, length: 0,02-0,8
sorting	bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt

vessel form type	Amphora A-MGR1
fragmentation	base – toe, lower part of body
surface description	smoothed
chronology of object	Greek-Archaic-Late Archaic
publication	Gassner and Sauer 2008, 360, A94 (= Santos Retolaza 2008, A94, 131, fig. 120,2)
	Context Data
site of discovery	Cala San Vicente shipwreck
registration code of object	A 94

applied method for sample analysis	thin section and heavy mineral analysis
analysis author	Roman Sauer
petrographic mineralogical type	A
sample taken	by Verena Gassner, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University
sample no	M 80/2
status of sample	whole sample available

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Distribution of fabric type
“CAL-A-6”

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production sampling

Representative sample for
“CAL-A-6”

M 45/1

There are 12 more samples assigned to fabric type
“CAL-A-6”.

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Context Data