FACEM
Provenance Studies on Ancient Pottery in the Mediterranean
| | object data | | fabric description | | archaeometry | | |
| sample no |
M 119/163 |
| fabric type |
CAL-A-1
|
| supposed site of production |
Calabria |
| fabric previously published as |
Impasto 5 |
| sample taken |
2008, by Babette Bechtold, Institute of Classical Archaeology, University of Tübingen |
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Context Data
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| site of discovery |
Pantelleria Acropolis Survey |
| registration code of context |
PN 04 ACR RIC UT 86.1 |
| registration code of object |
PN 04 ACR RIC UT 86.1-18 |
| |
Object
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| object form |
Amphora |
| object type |
Late Graeco-Italic |
| chronology of object |
Greek-Hellenistic 180-130 B.C.E. |
| fragmentation |
rim |
| dimensions |
diameter: 15.2cm (rim) |
| drawing |
|
| publication |
Bechtold 2013a, cat. 117; Bechtold 2013c, fig. 7,2. |
| | object data | | fabric description | | archaeometry | | |
| |
Visual Examination of Fresh Break
|
| visual examination of fresh break |
colour very pale brown, texture middle fine, numerous fine and few large inclusions: grey, white, red, mica, voids |
| colour of fresh break |
pink 7.5 YR 7/4 |
| texture of fresh break |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| |
Observation Under the Binocular Stereoscope
(all lengths in mm)
|
| porosity |
3.5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0.06-0.88 |
| inclusions |
20%, length: <0.04-1.6 |
| sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
| |
Inclusions
(all lengths in mm)
|
|
black inclusions |
very frequent, rounded, spherical - subspherical, subelongate, very elongate, black, <0.04-0.68 |
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mica |
frequent, spherical, angular, elongate, white, dark, <0.04-0.16 |
|
quartz |
riddled with, rounded, subangular - angular, spherical - subspherical, subelongate, elongate, grey, white, clear, reddish, 0.04-1.6 |
|
reddish inclusions |
very frequent, rounded - subangular, spherical - subspherical, elongate, very elongate, reddish brown, <0.04-0.48 |
| | object data | | fabric description | | archaeometry | | |
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