fabric type |
PAN-OD-1
|
ware |
Various Terracotta Objects |
supposed site of production |
Palermo / Panormos |
certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
colour grey, edges light red, texture coarse and compact, numerous small to large inclusions: white, black, red |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
grey gley 1 5/-, light red 10 R 6/8 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
10%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04-3.8, 1x 4.8 |
inclusions |
12.5%, length: <0.04-3.7, 1x 8.0 |
sorting |
unsorted |
|
Inclusions
|
quartz |
frequent, rounded - subangular, spherical, grey, clear, <0.04-0.2 |
mica |
frequent, spherical, elongate, white, dark, <0.04-0.16 |
calciumcarbonate |
very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - very elongate, yellowish white, white, <0.04-0.32 |
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
very frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, yellowish white, white, 0.04-8.0 |
reddish inclusions |
frequent, well rounded - subrounded, subangular - angular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - subelongate, reddish brown, red, reddish brown and black, <0.04-3.7 |
black inclusions |
frequent, rounded, subangular - angular, spherical - subspherical, elongate - subelongate, black, <0.04-3.0 |