Roman Amphorae: a digital resource
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Dressel 9
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Comments specific to this amphora typeThis fabric can also be soft and homogeneous, with large pores of small and medium size. In fracture the sandy clay often has a tendency to laminate. In fresh fracture inclusions of red and reddish-brown iron oxides can be seen, together with more frequent quartz grains, white and transparent, that can sometimes be mistaken for silver mica. Equivalent to: P&W AM 16 of the National Roman Fabric Reference Collection (Tomber & Dore, 1998: 102) |
| Cádiz fabric |
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Visual characteristicsA hard, slightly rough sandy fabric. In fracture the clay often has a tendency to laminate. Bright grains of quartz, white and transparent, with silver mica and red and brown iron ore. In general the colour is yellowish, often covered by an off-white or off- yellow slip. |
PetrologyThe amphora production area of Cádiz - including the bay of Cádiz and the surrounding area that encompasses Jerez de la Frontera, El Puerto de Santa María, Rota, Sanlúcar and Chipiona - exhibit ceramics with similar petrological characteristics, due to the use of clays derived from Tertiary and Quaternary sources located at the mouth of the river Guadalete. Thin sectioning shows frequent discrete and occasionally polycrystalline grains of quartz together with lesser quantities of felspar (0.3-0.5 mm.), mostly subangular and consisting mainly of orthoclase or microperthitic intergrowth. Fragments of limestone, fossil pelecypoda and foraminifera are present in small quantities, with rare grains of chert and fine sandstone (Peacock, 1974). The clay matrix contains some 20% of sand with a few particles of iron ore. Lazaro Lagóstena |
