| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| fabric type |
PAN-CBM-1
|
| ware |
Ceramic Building Materials |
| supposed site of production |
Palermo / Panormos |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
light red, irregular; some fine to large white and few dark inclusions |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
2.5YR6/6 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
5%; void form: vughy; channel; void length: 0.04-0.4 |
| inclusions |
7.5%, length: 0.02-2.2 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
mica |
frequent, angular, spherical, white, 0.03 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
very frequent, rounded, subspherical, white, 0.03-0.2 |
|
black iron oxide concretions |
infrequent, rounded, spherical, black, 0.03-0.09 |
|
red iron oxide concretions |
frequent, rounded, spherical, rusty brown, 0.06-0.6 |
|
reddish inclusions |
infrequent, angular, spherical, light red, 0.6 |
|
white inclusions |
frequent, angular, spherical - subspherical, white, 0.06-2.0 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| vessel form type |
Tile
stroter |
| fragmentation |
body |
| surface description |
slipped
pink slip, 7.5YR7/4 |
| |
Context Data
|
| site of discovery |
Palermo / Panormos |
| chronology of context |
Albergo dei Pove, tomb 1, unit of stratification 8 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| sample taken |
September 2009, by Francesca Spatafora, Soprintendenza Beni Culturali e Ambientali di Palermo |
| sample no |
M 108/3
 representative sample for PAN-CBM-1 |
| status of sample |
whole sample available |
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