| fabric description | object data | archaeometry |
| fabric type | PAN-C-1 |
|---|---|
| ware |
Coarse Wares Plain Wares |
| supposed site of production | Palermo / Panormos |
| certainty of arguments | archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break | colour grey, edges red, texture fine and compact, few medium sized inclusions: white, grey, red, voids, mica |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) | grey 5 YR 5/1, light red 10 R 6/8 |
| texture of freshly broken surface | smooth |
| hardness | hard |
| porosity | 2.5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-0.6, 1x 3.2 (vughy), 0.24 (channel) |
| inclusions | 5%, length: <0.04-2.0 |
| sorting | unsorted |
Inclusions |
|
| quartz | frequent, well rounded - rounded, subangular - angular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, grey, white, 0.04-0.28 |
| mica | frequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, dark, <0.04-0.06 |
| calciumcarbonate | very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - subelongate, yellowish white, white, <0.04-0.24 |
| carbonate pseudomorphoses | very frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, yellowish white, white, red, 0.04-0.52 |
| reddish inclusions | frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, red, light red, <0.04-0.46 |
| black inclusions | frequent, well rounded - subrounded, angular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, <0.04-0.1 |
| grey inclusions | singular, rounded, subspherical, grey, 2.0 |
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