| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| fabric type |
NA-REG-CBM-4
|
| ware |
Ceramic Building Materials |
| supposed site of production |
Naples region |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
pink, granular; scattered small white particles, sporadic fine white and large gray inclusions, mica |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
7.5YR7/4 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
fine |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
3%; void form: vughy; chambers; channel; void length: 0,08-0,5 |
| inclusions |
15%, length: 0,12-3 |
| sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
infrequent, angular, spherical, white, 0.12-0,28 |
|
mica |
frequent, angular, spherical, white, 0,02-0,04 |
|
red iron oxide concretions |
infrequent, rounded, spherical, rusty brown, 0,25-0,4 |
|
grey inclusions |
frequent, subrounded, subspherical - subelongate, light grey, 0,2-3 |
|
brown inclusions |
2,8 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| vessel form type |
Tile (roof tile)
calypter |
| fragmentation |
body |
| surface description |
coarse |
| |
Context Data
|
| site of discovery |
Velia
Theatre |
| registration code of context |
804/93 |
| registration code of object |
804/93 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| applied method for sample analysis |
thin section and heavy mineral analysis |
| analysis author |
Roman Sauer |
| petrographic mineralogical type |
RVZ08 |
| sample taken |
July 1996, by Maria Trapichler, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University |
| sample no |
M 8/25
 representative sample for NA-REG-CBM-4 |
| status of sample |
sample surplus, thin section and heavy mineral analysis surplus available |
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