| fabric description | object data | archaeometry | petrography |
| fabric type | LIL-C-1 |
|---|---|
| ware |
Coarse Wares Plain Ware |
| supposed site of production | Lilibeo / Lilybaion |
| certainty of arguments | archaeometric: certain, archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break | colour red, texture middle fine, numerous small to large inclusions: white, yellowish white, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) | red 10 R 5/6, peripheral area pale brown 2.5 YR 8/2 |
| texture of freshly broken surface | granular |
| hardness | hard |
| porosity | 7.5%; void form: channel, vughy; void length: 0.04-1.0 (channel), 0.8 (vughy) |
| inclusions | 22.5%, length: <0.04-0.5, singularly up to 0.88 |
| sorting | bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
Inclusions |
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| quartz | very frequent, well rounded - rounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, grey, clear, reddish brown, 0.04-0.88 |
| mica | infrequent, spherical, white, <0.04 |
| calciumcarbonate | riddled with, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, white, yellowish white, <0.04-0.4 |
| carbonate pseudomorphoses | riddled with, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, white, yellowish white, 0.04-0.8 |
| reddish inclusions | singular, rounded, spherical, reddish brown, 0.16-0.36 |
| black inclusions | singular, well rounded, rounded, subelongate, spherical, black, dark grey, 0.08-0.26 |
representative sample for LIL-C-1 Cite this page as: FACEM - http://facem.at/lil-c-1
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