| fabric type |
PAE-CBM-1
|
| ware |
Ceramic Building Materials |
| supposed site of production |
Paestum |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
light reddish brown, irregular; numerous fine to very large dark gray inclusions, many small to very large white (carbonate-) particles, mica |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
5YR6/4 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
10%; void form: vughy; channel; void length: 0,04-0,5 |
| inclusions |
30%, length: 0,08-2,8 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
very frequent, angular, spherical, clear; white, 0,2-0,8 |
|
mica |
frequent, angular, spherical, white, 0,02-0,04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
frequent, rounded, spherical - subspherical, white, 0,2-0,6 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
frequent, rounded, spherical - subspherical, white, 0,04-0,4 |
|
reddish inclusions |
infrequent, rounded, spherical, redd0, 0,16-0,4 |
|
grey inclusions |
frequent, subangular, spherical - subspherical, dark grey, 0,12-1,5 |
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