| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| fabric type |
PAE-C-3
|
| ware |
Coarse Wares |
| supposed site of production |
Paestum |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
pink, granular; fine white inclusions |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
7.5YR7/4 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
2.5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0,08-0,2 |
| inclusions |
30%, length: 0,2-1,2 |
| sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
infrequent, angular, spherical - subspherical, white; clear, 0.4-1,2 |
|
mica |
frequent, angular, spherical, white, 0,02-0,04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
infrequent, rounded, spherical, yellowish white, 0,6 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
riddled with, rounded, spherical, white, 0,04-0,3 |
|
reddish inclusions |
infrequent, rounded, spherical, red, 0,1-0,6 |
|
black inclusions |
frequent, angular, spherical, black, 0,08-0,4 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| vessel form type |
Jug |
| fragmentation |
rim |
| |
Context Data
|
| site of discovery |
Velia
Crossroad, trench 1/90 |
| registration code of context |
57/90 |
| registration code of object |
57/90-38 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| applied method for sample analysis |
thin section and heavy mineral analysis |
| analysis author |
Roman Sauer |
| petrographic mineralogical type |
RVGK02c |
| sample taken |
1991, by Verena Gassner, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University |
| sample no |
M 3/60
 representative sample for PAE-C-3 |
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