| fabric description | object data | archaeometry |
| fabric type | PAN-C-1 |
|---|---|
| ware |
Coarse Wares Plain Wares |
| supposed site of production | Palermo / Panormos |
| certainty of arguments | archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break | colour red, edges dark grey, texture fine and compact, numerous small and sporadically large inclusions: white, yellowish white, red, voids, mica |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) | red 10 R 5/8, dark grey |
| texture of freshly broken surface | smooth |
| hardness | hard |
| porosity | 2.5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-0.48 (vughy), 0.4 (channel) |
| inclusions | 5%, length: <0.04-0.8 |
| sorting | unsorted |
Inclusions |
|
| quartz | frequent, clear, <0.04 |
| mica | frequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, <0.04-0.06 |
| calciumcarbonate | riddled with, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, yellowish white, white, <0.04-0.12 |
| carbonate pseudomorphoses | very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, yellowish white, 0.04-0.8 |
| reddish inclusions | frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, 0.04-0.4 |
| black inclusions | singular, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, 0.04-0.36 |
| foraminifera | singular, very spherical, very elongate, white, red and white, 0.24-0.28 |
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