| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| fabric type |
VEL-AT-1
|
| ware |
Architectural Terracotta |
| supposed site of production |
Velia |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
reddish yellow, irregular; small to very large white inclusions, sporadic fine grey particles |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
5YR6/6 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
2%; void form: chambers; void length: 0.08-0.8 |
| inclusions |
10%, length: 0.2-3.2 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
very frequent, angular, spherical, white, 0.2-3.2 |
|
mica |
infrequent |
|
reddish inclusions |
infrequent, rounded, elongate, red, 0.2-1.6 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| fragmentation |
fragmentation not specified |
| surface description |
can not be identified |
| |
Context Data
|
| site of discovery |
Velia
Fortifications, Tower D2 |
| registration code of object |
VE 10 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| applied method for sample analysis |
thin section and heavy mineral analysis |
| analysis author |
Roman Sauer |
| petrographic mineralogical type |
RVZ01 |
| sample taken |
September 1990, by Verena Gassner, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University |
| sample no |
M 7/11
 representative sample for VEL-AT-1 |
| status of sample |
thin section surplus available |
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