PAN-A-1, M 165/13, scale bar 0.5mm
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| fabric description | object data | archaeometry | petrography |
| fabric type | PAN-A-1 |
|---|---|
| ware | Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production | Palermo / Panormos |
| certainty of arguments | archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break | colour red and dark grey, texture fine and compact, numerous small and few large inclusions: white, red, yellowish white, voids, mica |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) | red 10 R 5/8, dark reddish grey 10 R 4/1 |
| texture of freshly broken surface | smooth |
| hardness | hard |
| porosity | 6.5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.08 (channel)-0.8 (vughy), 0.5 (channel) |
| inclusions | 5%, length: <0.04-0.9 |
| sorting | unsorted |
Inclusions |
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| quartz | very frequent, well rounded - rounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, grey, clear, 0.04-0.18 |
| mica | frequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, dark, <0.04-0.06 |
| calciumcarbonate | very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, white, yellowish white, <0.04-0.9 |
| carbonate pseudomorphoses | riddled with, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate - very elongate, white, yellowish white, <0.04-0.8 |
| reddish inclusions | very frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, <0.04-0.6 |
| black inclusions | singular, rounded - subrounded, spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, 0.04-0.1 |
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