| fabric type |
PAE-A-1
|
| fabric previously published as |
Impasto 82 |
| 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 and infrequent large inclusions: white, red, black, mica, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
light red 2.5 YR 6/6 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
5%; void form: vughy (0.04-1.8), channel (0.08-0.88); void length: 0.04-1.8 |
| inclusions |
15%, length: <0.04-0.8 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
very frequent, rounded - subrounded, subangular - angular, very spherical - subspherical, subelongtae, elongate, grey, clear, white, reddish, 0.04-0.8 |
|
mica |
frequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, dark, <0.04-0.04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
very frequent, well rounded - angular, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, elongate, white, yellwosih white, 0.04-0.48 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
very frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, white, grey, 0.04-0.6 |
|
reddish inclusions |
very frequent, well rounded - rounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, <0.04-0.56 |
|
black inclusions |
very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, 0.04-0.8 |
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