| fabric type |
MALTA-A-4
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Malta |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour light grey, core light red, texture middle fine, numerous fine to large inclusions: white, red, black, pseudomorphoses, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
light grey 10 YR 7/2, core pink 7.5 YR 8/3 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
5%; void form: vughy (0.04-1.4), channel (0.06-0.6); void length: 0.04-1.4 |
| inclusions |
30%, length: <0.04-5.6 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
mica |
frequent, elongate, angular, spherical, white, <0.04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
riddled with, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, white, yellowish white, <0.04-0.08 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
riddled with, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, white, 0.04-0.68 |
|
reddish inclusions |
very frequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, red, reddish brown, <0.04-0.5 |
|
black inclusions |
infrequent, rounded, subangular- angular, very spherical, elongate, black, <0.04-0.2 |
|
white inclusions |
infrequent, well rounded - subangular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, white, yellowish, grey, clear, 0.08-0.24 |
|
foraminifera |
very frequent, well rounded, rounded, very spherical, subspherical, very elongate, white, reddish, 0.08-0.4 |
|
more inclusions2 |
frequent, angular, subelongate, white, yellowish white, 0.12-2.0 |
|
more inclusions3 |
singular, very elongate, red, 2.2->5.6 |
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