| fabric type |
LIL-A-1
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Lilibeo / Lilybaion |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: certain, archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour red, coarse texture, numerous small and few large inclusions: yellowish white, reddish brown, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
red 10 R 5/8 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
12.5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-2.1 (vughy), 0.6 (channel) |
| inclusions |
25%, length: <0.04-1.1 |
| sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
| |
Inclusions
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|
quartz |
very frequent, well rounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, grey, clear, white, 0.04-0.5 |
|
mica |
infrequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, <0.04-0.04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
very frequent, rounded, very spherical - spherical, elongate, yellowish white, white, <0.04-0.9 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
very frequent, rounded, very spherical - spherical, subelongate, yellowish white, white, 0.06-1.1 |
|
reddish inclusions |
singular, well rounded, very spherical, elongate, red, reddish brown, 0.04-0.16 |
|
black inclusions |
singular, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, black, 0.04-0.2 |
representative sample for LIL-A-1 
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