LIL-A-2, M 169/4, scale bar 0.5mm
LIL-A-2, M 169/4, 25x
LIL-A-2, M 169/4, 16x
LIL-A-2, M 169/4, 8x
| fabric description | object data | archaeometry | petrography |
| fabric type | LIL-A-2 |
|---|---|
| ware | Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production | Lilibeo / Lilybaion |
| certainty of arguments | archaeometric: certain, archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break | colour brown, grey, red (sandwich), texture coarse, numerous small and few large inclusions: white, red, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) | light reddish brown 2.5 YR 6/4, redddish grey 10 R 5/1, core red 10 R 5/8 |
| texture of freshly broken surface | irregular |
| hardness | hard |
| porosity | 7.5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-0.7 (vughy), 0.48 (channel) |
| inclusions | 25%, length: <0.04-0.6 |
| sorting | bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
Inclusions |
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| quartz | very frequent, well rounded - rounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, grey, clear, white, 0.04-0.56 |
| mica | infrequent, spherical, elongate, white, <0.04-0.06 |
| calciumcarbonate | very frequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, subelongate, white, <0.04-0.6 |
| carbonate pseudomorphoses | infrequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, white, 0.04-0.2 |
| reddish inclusions | singular, rounded, subspherical, red, reddish brown, 0.28-0.6 |
| black inclusions | singular, angular, elongate, black, 0.24 |
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