| fabric description | object data | archaeometry | petrography |
| fabric type | LIL-C-2 |
|---|---|
| ware |
Coarse Wares Plain Ware |
| supposed site of production | Lilibeo / Lilybaion |
| certainty of arguments | archaeometric: certain, archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break | colour red, texture middle fine, numerous small and few large inclusions: white, grey, red, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) | red 2.5 YR 5/8 |
| texture of freshly broken surface | granular |
| hardness | hard |
| porosity | 10%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-0.56 (vughy), 0.44 (channel) |
| inclusions | 17.5%, length: <0.04-0.36, singular up to 0.8 |
| sorting | bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
Inclusions |
|
| quartz | very frequent, rounded - subangular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - subelongate, grey, clear, 0.04-0.28 |
| mica | infrequent, spherical, elongate, white, <0.04 |
| calciumcarbonate | frequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, white, yellowish white, 0.04-0.4 |
| carbonate pseudomorphoses | frequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, white, yellowish white, 0.04-0.8 |
| reddish inclusions | infrequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, 0.04-0.4 |
| black inclusions | singular, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, black, 0.08-0.18 |
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