| fabric description | object data | archaeometry | petrography |
| fabric type | LIL-C-2 |
|---|---|
| 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 and dark grey, texture middle fine and compact, numerous small to large inclusions: white, red, mica, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) | exterior and cored red 10 R 5/8, interior dark grey gley 1, 4/0 |
| texture of freshly broken surface | granular |
| hardness | hard |
| porosity | 7.5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-0.4, 1x 1.8 (vughy), 0.48 (channel) |
| inclusions | 15%, length: <0.04-0.6 |
| sorting | bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
Inclusions |
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| quartz | frequent, well rounded - rounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, clear, grey, brownish, 0.04-0.2 |
| mica | infrequent, spherical, elongate, white, <0.04 |
| calciumcarbonate | infrequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - subelongate, white, yellowish white, 0.04-0.6 |
| carbonate pseudomorphoses | frequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - subelongate, white, yellowish white, 0.06-0.4 |
| black inclusions | singular, rounded, spherical, elongate, black, 0.08 |
representative sample for LIL-C-2 Cite this page as: FACEM - http://facem.at/lil-c-2
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