| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| fabric type |
MOT-A-2
|
| fabric previously published as |
CAR-REG-A-3, KTS, Carthage (n. 334) |
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Mozia / Motya |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
reddish yellow, laminated; many fine to medium-sized white inclusions, some large carbonate-(pseudomorphoses) particles, transparent glittering quartz particles, large channel formed voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
5YR6/6 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
laminated |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
15%; void form: channel; void length: 0,05-2 |
| inclusions |
30% |
| sorting |
unsorted |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
very frequent, angular, spherical, clear, 0,3-1 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
frequent, well rounded, very spherical; subspherical, white, 0,15-1,5 |
|
black iron oxide concretions |
infrequent, subrounded, subelongate, black, 0,2-0,3 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| vessel form type |
Amphora
Ramón T-4.2.1.5 |
| fragmentation |
rim |
| surface description |
coarse
in- and exterior: pink, 7.5YR8/4 |
| chronology of object |
350-280 |
| publication |
Bechtold (forthcoming 2) |
| |
Context Data
|
| site of discovery |
Carthage
Bir Messaouda, trench 2 |
| registration code of context |
BM05/2504 |
| registration code of object |
BM05/46336 |
| chronology of context |
330/320-300 (MP II.2 |
| | 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 94/7 |
| status of sample |
whole sample available |
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