ION-ADR-A-6

fabric description

object data

archaeometry

fabric type	ION-ADR-A-6
fabric previously published as	F. 37
ware	Transport Amphorae
supposed site of production	Ionic-Adriatic region
certainty of arguments	archaeological: quite certain
visual excamination of fresh break	colour light brown and light grey, texture fine, numerous fine inclusions: white, red, mica, voids
colour of freshly broken section (munsell)	interior grey 7.5 YR 6/0, exterior and core pink 7.5 YR 7/4
texture of freshly broken surface	regular
hardness	hard
porosity	2.5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0.08-0.72
inclusions	5%, length: <0.04-0.8
sorting	bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt
	Inclusions
quartz	very frequent, well rounded - angular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, grey, yellowish, clear, white, 0.04-0.24
mica	frequent, spherical, angular, elongate, white, dark, <0.04-0.12
calciumcarbonate	singular, angular, elongate, white, 0.32
carbonate pseudomorphoses	singular, subelongate, white, 0.48
reddish inclusions	very frequent, well rounded - subangular, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, elongate, red, reddish brown, 0.04-0.8
black inclusions	very frequent, well rounded - angular, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, elongate, black, <0.04-0.24

vessel form type	Amphora Gassner 5/Corinthian B
fragmentation	base
chronology of object	Greek-Classic 500-400 B.C.E.
publication	Bechtold 2007d, 697-698, fig. 380, cat. 5582; Bechtold 2013c, fig. 15,2 pl. 2,7.
drawing
	Context Data
site of discovery	Carthage Bir Messaouda, Hamburg Excavatiom
registration code of context	KA 87/151
registration code of object	KA 87/151-1
chronology of context	250-146 B.C.E.

sample taken	2006, by Babette Bechtold, Institut of Classical Archeaology, University of Hamburg
sample no	M 92/61

Cite this page as: FACEM - http://facem.at/m-92-61

Distribution of fabric type
“ION-ADR-A-6”

Buthrotum Buthrotum Carthage Jerba Jerba Selinunte / Selinus

production sampling

Representative sample for
“ION-ADR-A-6”

M 79/46

There are 5 more samples assigned to fabric type
“ION-ADR-A-6”.

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Inclusions

Context Data