| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| fabric type |
UTI-A-2
|
| fabric previously published as |
CAR-REG-A-2, KTS, Carthage (n. 167) |
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Utica / Ityke |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
red, granular; some fine white and dark inclusions |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
2.5YR5/6 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
20%; void form: channel; vughy; void length: 0,15-0,5 |
| inclusions |
25% |
| sorting |
moderately sorted sand |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
very frequent, angular, spherical; elongate, clear; white; brown, 0,15-1 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
infrequent, rounded, spherical, white, 0,06-0,15 |
|
black iron oxide concretions |
infrequent, rounded, spherical, black, 0,15 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| vessel form type |
Amphora
Ramón T-6.1.1.3 |
| fragmentation |
rim |
| dimensions |
diameter: 15,6cm (rim) |
| surface description |
coarse
?scum? exterior, 2.5Y8/2, interior: light red, 2.5YR6/6 |
| chronology of object |
3rd century BC |
| publication |
Bechtold 2008b, 83, cat. no. 14 |
| |
Context Data
|
| site of discovery |
Carthage
Bir Messaouda, surface |
| registration code of context |
BM00/1000 |
| registration code of object |
BM00/11006 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| sample taken |
July 2006, by Babette Bechtold, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History of Europe, Ghent University / INP Tunis |
| sample no |
M 94/1 |
| status of sample |
whole sample available |
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