| | 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 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
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 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
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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