| 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, coarse texture, numerous small and few large inclusions: white, grey, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) | red 10 R 5/6 |
| texture of freshly broken surface | granular |
| hardness | hard |
| porosity | 15%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-3.0, 1x 4.2 (vughy), 1.1 (channel) |
| inclusions | 20%, length: <0.04-1.5, singular 2.2 |
| sorting | bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
Inclusions |
|
| quartz | very frequent, well rounded - rounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, grey, clear, brownish, 0.04-0.5 |
| mica | infrequent, spherical, white, <0.04 |
| calciumcarbonate | frequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - subelongate, white, yellowish white, 0.04-0.8 |
| carbonate pseudomorphoses | frequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, white, yellowish white, 0.06-0.9 |
| reddish inclusions | infrequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, reddish brown, 0.04-1.5 |
| black inclusions | infrequent, spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, 0.04-0.12 |
| more inclusions2 | singular, subrounded, subspherical, red and yellow, 2.2 |
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