| fabric type |
LIL-A-2
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Lilibeo / Lilybaion |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: certain, archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour red and reddish brown, texture middle fine and compact, numerous small and sporadically large inclusions: white, grey, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
red 10 R 5/8, light reddish brown 5 YR 6/3 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
7.5%; void form: channel, vughy; void length: 0.06 (channel), 0.08 (vughy)-1.2 (channel, vughy) |
| inclusions |
25%, length: <0.04-0.9, 1x2.8 |
| sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
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Inclusions
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quartz |
very frequent, well rounded - rounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, grey, clear, reddish brown, 0.04-0.6 |
|
mica |
infrequent, spherical, elongate, white, <0,04-0,04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
frequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, yellowish white, white, 0.04-0.6 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, yellowish white, white, 0.06-2.8 |
|
reddish inclusions |
singular, very spherical, reddish brown, 0.48 |
|
black inclusions |
infrequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, black, 0.04-0.4 |
representative sample for LIL-A-2 
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