W-SARD-A-6

fabric description

object data

archaeometry

fabric type	W-SARD-A-6
fabric previously published as	F. 96
ware	Transport Amphorae ,
supposed site of production	Western Sardinia
certainty of arguments	archaeological: quite certain
visual excamination of fresh break	colour light red, texture middle fine and compact, numerous fine to large inclusions: white, grey, red, mica, voids
colour of freshly broken section (munsell)	reddish yellow 5 YR 6/6
texture of freshly broken surface	granular
hardness	hard
porosity	5%; void form: vughy (0.04-0.72), channel (0.08-0.8)); void length: 0.04-0.8
inclusions	10%, length: <0.04-2.8
sorting	bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt
	Inclusions
quartz	frequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, grey, white, clear, 0.12-1.0
mica	riddled with, spherical, angular, dark, white, <0.04-0.12
calciumcarbonate	very frequent, subspherical, subelongate - very elongate, white, 0.04-2.8
carbonate pseudomorphoses	singular, well rounded, very spherical, white, reddish white, 0.4-0.24
reddish inclusions	very frequent, well rounded, very spherical - subspherical, red, reddish brown, <0.04-0.36
black inclusions	infrequent, well rounded, very spherical, elongate, black, 0.04-0.24
foraminifera	frequent, well rounded, very spherical, very elongate, white, 0.04-0.8

vessel form type	Amphora Ramon T-1.4.4.1
fragmentation	profile
dimensions	diameter: 12.2cm (rim); height: 43cm
surface description	slipped 7.5 YR 6(8
chronology of object	Punic-Middle Punic 475-425 B.C.E.
publication	Bechtold 2007d, 667-668, cat. 5504, fig. 366; Bechtold 2013c, fig. 31,2.
drawing
	Context Data
site of discovery	Carthage Bir Messaouda, Hamburg excavation
registration code of context	KA 88/24+KA 88/25
registration code of object	KA 88/24-12+KA 88/25-1
chronology of context	475-425 B.C.E.

sample taken	1991, by Babette Bechtold, Institut of Classical Archeaology, University of Hamburg
sample no	M 92/23

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Distribution of fabric type
“W-SARD-A-6”

Pantelleria Carthage Carthage Pantelleria Pantelleria

production sampling

Representative sample for
“W-SARD-A-6”

M 119/69

There are 4 more samples assigned to fabric type
“W-SARD-A-6”.

Other fabrics of western Sardinia: By contrast to W-SARD-A-1 to W-SARD-A-5,1 the following two fabrics W-SARD-A-6 and W-SARD-A-7 have not been defined on the basis of the analysis of the Riu Mannu and Terralba materials, but have been observed in samples from Carthage and Pantelleria.

Fabrics of Western Sardinia: Two fabrics have been defined by the Riu Mannu and Terralba projects on the basis of sys? tematically and intensively collected surface finds (1992?99 and 2003?04). Around 4,000 fragments from a dozen sites ...

Western Greek and Sardinian Amphorae from Punic Sites in the Southern Mediterranean: New Evidence from Fabric Analysis for Economic Interaction in the Carthaginian Sphere of Influence (6th-3rd century B.C.E.)

Inclusions

Context Data