| fabric type |
SOL-A-2
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Solunto / Solus |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: certain, archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour red and grey, texture middle fine, numerous small to large inclusions: yellowish white, white, red, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
red 10R 5/8, core reddish brown 2.5 YR 5/3 and gley 1 5/- |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
10%; void form: channel, vughy; void length: 0.06 (channel), 0.04 (vughy)-1.8 |
| inclusions |
15%, length: <0.04-1.3 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
frequent, well rounded - rounded, subangular - angular, very spherical - subspherical, clear, grey, white, reddish, 0.06-0.5 |
|
mica |
frequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, <0.04-0.08 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
very frequent, rounded - subrounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate - elongate, yellowish white, white, <0.04-1.3 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, yellowish white, white, 0.04-0.8 |
|
black inclusions |
infrequent, rounded, subangular, spherical, elongate, black, 0.04-0.4 |
|
more inclusions2 |
singular, subrounded, subangular, subspherical, red, red and white, 0.12-1.0 |
representative sample for SOL-A-2 
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