| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
fabric type |
CAR-REG-C-2
|
ware |
Coarse Wares |
supposed site of production |
Carthage region |
certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
pale brown, irregular; many fine to very large gray inclusions, some medium-sized white particles |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
10YR6/3 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
10%; void form: channel; vughy; void length: 0,04-1 |
inclusions |
15%, length: 0,02-1,5 |
sorting |
unsorted |
|
Inclusions
|
quartz |
frequent, angular, pherical - subspherical, clear; white, 0,04-0,6 |
mica |
infrequent, angular, spherical, white, 0,02 |
reddish inclusions |
frequent, angular, spherical - subspherical, reddish brown, 0,05-0,25 |
black inclusions |
frequent, angular, spherical - subspherical, black, 0,04-0,3 |
grey inclusions |
frequent, angular, spherical, dark grey, 0,12-0,75 |
more inclusions1 |
infrequent, angular, spherical, light grey, 0,25-1,5 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
vessel form type |
Closed Vessel |
fragmentation |
rim |
dimensions |
diameter: 3,8cm (rim) |
surface description |
coarse in- and exterior: pink, 7.5YR7/4 |
chronology of object |
? |
|
Context Data
|
site of discovery |
Carthage Bir Messaouda, trench 4 |
registration code of context |
BM03/4338 |
registration code of object |
BM03/37671 |
chronology of context |
Early Imperial (Roman I) |
| | 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 95/28 |
status of sample |
whole sample available |
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