LIL-A-2, M 169/9, scale bar 0.5mm
LIL-A-2, M 169/9, 25x
LIL-A-2, M 169/9, 16x
LIL-A-2, M 169/9, 8x
| fabric description | object data | archaeometry | petrography |
| fabric type | LIL-A-2 |
|---|---|
| ware | Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production | Lilibeo / Lilybaion |
| certainty of arguments | archaeometric: certain, archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break | colour red and reddish brown, texture middle fine and compact, numerous small and sporadically large inclusions: white, grey, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) | red 10 R 5/8, light reddish brown 5 YR 6/3 |
| texture of freshly broken surface | irregular |
| hardness | hard |
| porosity | 7.5%; void form: channel, vughy; void length: 0.06 (channel), 0.08 (vughy)-1.2 (channel, vughy) |
| inclusions | 25%, length: <0.04-0.9, 1x2.8 |
| sorting | bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
Inclusions |
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| quartz | very frequent, well rounded - rounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, grey, clear, reddish brown, 0.04-0.6 |
| mica | infrequent, spherical, elongate, white, <0,04-0,04 |
| calciumcarbonate | frequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, yellowish white, white, 0.04-0.6 |
| carbonate pseudomorphoses | frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, yellowish white, white, 0.06-2.8 |
| reddish inclusions | singular, very spherical, reddish brown, 0.48 |
| black inclusions | infrequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, black, 0.04-0.4 |
representative sample for LIL-A-2 Cite this page as: FACEM - http://facem.at/lil-a-2
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