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PAN-C-2

fabric descriptionobject dataarchaeometry
fabric type PAN-C-2
ware Coarse Wares
supposed site of production Palermo / Panormos
certainty of arguments archaeological: quite certain
visual excamination of fresh break grey, core: reddish brown; granular some fine white, few dark inclusions
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) 5YR5/1, core: 5YR5/4
texture of freshly broken surface granular
hardness hard
porosity 5%; void form: vughy; channel; void length: 0.04-0.5
inclusions 5%, length: 0.02-1.0
sorting unsorted
 

Inclusions

quartz frequent, angular, spherical - elongate, white; clear, 0.09-1.0
mica frequent, angular, spherical, white, 0.03-0.06
calciumcarbonate frequent, rounded, spherical, white; orange, 0.15-0.3
black iron oxide concretions infrequent, rounded, spherical - subspherical, brownish black, 0.06-0.09
red iron oxide concretions infrequent, rounded, spherical - subspherical, rusty brown, 0.06-0.6
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