| fabric type |
PAE-A-1
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Paestum |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour light red, texture middle fine and compact, numerous fine to large inclusions; white, grey, red |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
light red 2.5 YR 6/8 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
1.5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0.04-0.4 |
| inclusions |
12.5%, length: <0.04-1.0 |
| sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
very frequent, rounded - subrounded, angular, spherical - subspherical, elongate, grey, white, clear, reddish, 0.04-0.64 |
|
mica |
frequent, spherical, angular, elongate, white, <0.04-0.04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
infrequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, white, yellowish white, 0.04-0.32 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, white, grey, yellowish, 0.06-1.0 |
|
reddish inclusions |
frequent, rounded - subrounded, spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, <0.04-0.96 |
|
black inclusions |
frequent, well rounded - subrounded, subangular, spherical - subspherical, subelongate, elongate, black, <0.04-0.48 |
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