| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| fabric type |
CAR-REG-A-1
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Carthage |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
reddish yellow, irregular; some fine white particles, some large light gray inclusions |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
5YR6/6 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
5%; void form: channel; vughy; void length: 0,15-1,2 |
| inclusions |
20% |
| sorting |
moderately sorted sand |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
very frequent, angular, spherical, clear; gray |
|
mica |
infrequent, white, 0,03 |
|
black iron oxide concretions |
frequent, rounded, spherical, black, 0,06-0,3 |
|
red iron oxide concretions |
infrequent, rounded, spherical, reddish brown, 0,2-0,3 |
|
grey inclusions |
singular, well rounded, spherical, dark grey, 1,2-1,5 |
|
white inclusions |
infrequent, angular, spherical; subspherical, white, 0,06-0,3 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| vessel form type |
Amphora |
| fragmentation |
body |
| surface description |
coarse
in- and exterior: reddish yellow, 5YR7/6 |
| chronology of object |
Early Punic ? Middle Punic |
| |
Context Data
|
| site of discovery |
Carthage
Bir Messaouda, surface |
| registration code of context |
BM04/4400 |
| registration code of object |
BM04/61902 |
| chronology of context |
surface |
| | 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 94/13 |
| status of sample |
whole sample available |
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