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PAN-A-1

fabric descriptionobject dataarchaeometry
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 leight red, texture fine and compact, numerous very small and infrequent large inclusions: white, red, voids, mica
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) light red 2.5 YR 6/8
texture of freshly broken surface irregular
hardness hard
porosity 5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.04 (channel)-0.8 vughy, 1.1 (channel)
inclusions 5%, length: <0.04-1.8
sorting unsorted
 

Inclusions

quartz very frequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, subangular, clear, grey, white, 0.04-0.3
mica frequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, dark, <0.04-0.08
calciumcarbonate very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, white, yellowish white,
carbonate pseudomorphoses very frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, white, yellowish white, <0.04-1.8
reddish inclusions very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, red, <0.04-0.8
black inclusions infrequent, spherical, rounded, elongate, black, 0.04-0.12
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