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PAN-A-1

fabric descriptionobject dataarchaeometrypetrography
fabric type PAN-A-1
ware Transport Amphorae
supposed site of production Palermo / Panormos
certainty of arguments archaeometric: certain, archaeological: quite certain
visual excamination of fresh break colour light red, texture fine and compact, numerous small, sporadically large inclusions: white, grey, voids
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) light red 10 R 6/8
texture of freshly broken surface smooth
hardness hard
porosity 5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-0.48 (vughy), 0.5 (channel)
inclusions 7.5%, length: <0.04-0.7
sorting bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt
 

Inclusions

quartz very frequent, rounded, subangular - angular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - subelongate, grey, clear, reddish brown, 0.04-0.44
mica infrequent, spherical, elongate, white, <0.04
calciumcarbonate very frequent, rounded - subrounded, very sperical - subspherical, elongate, yellowish white, white, <0.04-0.3
carbonate pseudomorphoses very frequent, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, yellowish white, white, 0.04-0.7
reddish inclusions very frequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, red, reddish brown, 0.04-0.5
black inclusions infrequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, grey, 0.04-0.16
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