| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
fabric type |
ION-ADR-A-1
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fabric previously published as |
F. 7b/Corfiote I |
ware |
Transport Amphorae |
supposed site of production |
Ionic-Adriatic region |
certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
colour very pale brown, pale yellow, texture fine and compact, fine inclusions: grey, red, voids |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
very pale brown 10 YR 8/3, core pink 7.5 YR 7/3 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
5%; void form: vughy (0.04-1.48), channel (0.4-2.8); void length: 0.04-2.8 |
inclusions |
5%, length: <0.04-0.44 |
sorting |
unsorted |
|
Inclusions
|
quartz |
riddled with, rounded - angular, very spherical - subspherical, grey, yellowish, white, 0.04-0.28 |
mica |
infrequent, spherical, white, dark, <0.04-0.04 |
calciumcarbonate |
infrequent, very spherical - subspherical, white, 0.04-0.12 |
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
infrequent, well rounded, very spherical - subspherical, grey, white, reddish, 0.2-0.4 |
reddish inclusions |
very frequent, very spherical - subspherical, red, reddish brown, 0.04-0.16 |
black inclusions |
frequent, subrounded - angular, subspherical, black, 0.04-0.44 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
vessel form type |
Amphora Gassner 5/Corinthian B |
fragmentation |
base |
chronology of object |
Greek-Classic 500-400 B.C.E. |
publication |
Bechtold 2008b, 96, cat. 34, fig. 21; Bechtold 2013c, fig. 11,10. |
drawing |
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Context Data
|
site of discovery |
Carthage Bir Messaouda, Amsterdam Excavation |
registration code of context |
BM 00/1000 |
registration code of object |
BM00/11025 |
chronology of context |
surface find |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
sample taken |
2006, by Babette Bechtold, Department of Archaeology, University of Amsterdam/INP Tunis |
sample no |
M 92/40 |
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