VEL-C-8

fabric description

object data

archaeometry

fabric type	VEL-C-8
ware	Coarse Wares
supposed site of production	Velia region
certainty of arguments	archaeometric: quite certain, archaeological: quite certain
visual excamination of fresh break	light red, smooth, many fine to large white inclusions, some large dark gray and reddish inclusions
colour of freshly broken section (munsell)	yellowish red, 5YR5/6 to red, 2.5YR5/6
texture of freshly broken surface	smooth
hardness	hard
porosity	2.5%; void form: vughy; chambers; void length: 0.025-0.25
inclusions	20%, length: 0.025-1
sorting	unsorted
	Inclusions
quartz	very frequent, very angular, subspherical, white, clear, 0.025-1
mica	singular
red iron oxide concretions	infrequent, angular, subspherical, 0.05-0.25
reddish inclusions	infrequent, angular, subspherical, 0.05-0.25

vessel form type	Lid
fragmentation	lid – button
surface description	smoothed light red, 2.5YR6/6
publication	Gassner et al. 2014, 224
	Context Data
site of discovery	Velia Fortifications, wall B, trench 5/98, unit of stratification 520/98
registration code of context	520/4/98
registration code of object	520/4/98-54

applied method for sample analysis	thin section and heavy mineral analysis
analysis author	Roman Sauer
publication (of analysis)	Gassner et al. 2014, 238-39
petrographic mineralogical type	RVGK01d
sample taken	2002, by Maria Trapichler, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University
sample no	M 3/105 representative sample for VEL-C-8
status of sample	sample surplus and thin section surplus available

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Distribution of fabric type
“VEL-C-8”

Velia Velia region

production sampling

Representative sample for
“VEL-C-8”

M 3/105

The Coarse Wares of Velia Fabrics and shapes: Introduction Coarse wares comprise domestic pottery used as simple table ware, as cooking or kitchen ware or for storage of liquids and food. The greater part of the coarse wares found in Velia is made up of local products, import being reduced to special shapes like mortars or small transport vessels?

Pottery production at Velia: Ceramic raw materials and archaeometric analyses: Introduction The local production of pottery, bricks and tiles has been assumed for Velia as well as for many other colonies in Magna Graecia at a rather early stage of research, but the characteristics and the development of this production remained unknown for a long time?

Fabrics of Velia: The classification of fabrics is based upon the macroscopic analysis of all diagnostic fragments of the material of studied contexts of the Austrian excavations. These comprise a context of the Early Classical period in the Lower town of Velia...

Inclusions

Context Data