| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| fabric type |
CAR-REG-C-1
|
| ware |
Coarse Wares |
| supposed site of production |
Carthage region |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
light brown, core: brown, irregular; many dark gray medium-sized to very large inclusions, few fine to large white particles |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
7.5YR 6/4, core: 10YR5/3 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
10%; void form: channel; vughy; void length: 0,04-1 |
| inclusions |
15%, length: 0,02-1 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
very frequent, angular, spherical - subspherical, clear, 0,04-0,5 |
|
mica |
infrequent, angular, spherical, white, 0,02 |
|
reddish inclusions |
infrequent, angular, subspherical, reddish brown, 0,25 |
|
black inclusions |
frequent, angular, spherical - subspherical, black, 0,05-0,25 |
|
brown inclusions |
infrequent, angular, spherical, yellowish brown, 0,08-0,12 |
|
white inclusions |
infrequent, angular, spherical, white, 0,12-1 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| vessel form type |
Storage Vessel
dolium |
| fragmentation |
rim |
| dimensions |
diameter: 21,5cm (rim) |
| surface description |
coarse
in- and exterior: pink, 7.5YR7/4 |
| chronology of object |
700-400? |
| |
Context Data
|
| site of discovery |
Carthage
Bir Messaouda, trench 8 |
| registration code of context |
BM02/8275 |
| registration code of object |
BM02/60281 |
| chronology of context |
Middle Punic -Late Punic (480-146 BC) |
| | 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 95/26 |
| status of sample |
whole sample available |
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