| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| fabric type |
NW-LUC-A-1
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
North Western Lucania |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
reddish yellow, granular; numerous fine to medium-sized white and some medium-sized light brown inclusions |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
5YR7/6 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
4%; void form: channel; void length: 0,04-0,6 |
| inclusions |
15%, length: 0,2-0,6 |
| sorting |
bimodal: well sorted sand in well sorted silt |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
riddled with, angular, spherical, white to gray, 0.2-0,6 |
|
mica |
infrequent |
|
black inclusions |
infrequent, angular, spherical, black |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| vessel form type |
Amphora
Western Greek amphora, Gassner's rim 3 |
| fragmentation |
body |
| surface description |
slipped
pale yellow, 2.5YR8/2 |
| chronology of object |
Greek-Classic |
| publication |
Gassner 2003, cat. no. IIa.200, pl. 24 |
| |
Context Data
|
| site of discovery |
Velia
Late Archaic mudbrick houses beneath Insula II, trench 6/92 |
| registration code of context |
6002/92 |
| registration code of object |
6002/92-17 |
| chronology of context |
Gassner 2003, phase IIa |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| applied method for sample analysis |
thin section and heavy mineral analysis |
| analysis author |
Roman Sauer |
| petrographic mineralogical type |
RVA002a |
| sample taken |
November 1993, by Verena Gassner, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University |
| sample no |
M 6/2
 representative sample for NW-LUC-A-1 |
| status of sample |
thin section and heavy mineral analysis surplus available |
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