| fabric description | object data | archaeometry |
| fabric type | COS-C-3 |
|---|---|
| ware |
Coarse Wares Pantellerian Ware |
| supposed site of production | Pantelleria |
| certainty of arguments | archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break | colour reddish brown, texture coarse, numerous fine to large inclusions: clear, black, grey, yellow, mica, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) | reddish brown 2.5 YR 4/4 |
| texture of freshly broken surface | granular |
| hardness | soft |
| porosity | 10%; void form: vughy (0.06-2.4), channel (0.06-2.75); void length: 0.06-2.75 |
| inclusions | 17.5%, length: <0.04-1.1 |
| sorting | bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
Inclusions |
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| mica | infrequent, angular, elongate, spherical, white, dark, <0.04-0.08 |
| reddish inclusions | infrequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, red, reddish brown, 0.04-0.4 |
| black inclusions | very frequent, subangular - angular, rounded - subrounded, subspherical, elongate - very elongate, black, <0.04-0.9 |
| grey inclusions | singular, subrounded, subspherical, grey, 1.0-1.1 |
| more inclusions2 | very frequent, very angular - subangular, subspherical, elongate - very elongate, clear, grey, 0.06-1.0 |
| more inclusions3 | singular, subrounded, subspherical, yellowish brown, 0.3 |
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