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MALTA-A-3

fabric descriptionobject dataarchaeometrypetrography
fabric type MALTA-A-3
ware Transport Amphorae
supposed site of production Malta
certainty of arguments archaeological: quite certain
visual excamination of fresh break colour red and grey, texture middle fine, numerous fine to some large inclusions, yellowish, reddish, white, voids
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) light red 2.5 YR 6/6, core grey 7.5 YR 5/0
texture of freshly broken surface irregular
hardness hard
porosity 7.5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04-1.6
inclusions 7.5%, length: <0.04-1.8
sorting poorly sorted silt
 

Inclusions

mica frequent, angular, spherical, elongate, white, <0.04-0.04
calciumcarbonate riddled with, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate - very elongate, yellowish orange, white, 0.04-0.6
carbonate pseudomorphoses riddled with, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate - very elongate, yellowish orange, 0.08-1.8
reddish inclusions infrequent, rounded - subrounded, spherical, elongate, reddish brown, 0.04-0.24
black inclusions very frequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical, black, 0.04-0.52
foraminifera infrequent, well rounded, very spherical, very elongate, yellowish white, white, 0.28-0.48
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