| fabric type |
PAN-A-1
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Palermo / Panormos |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour red, edges dark grey, texture fine and compact, numerous small and few large inclusions: white, yellowish white, red, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
red 10 R 5/8, dark grey 10 R 4/1 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
smooth |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
2.5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-0.5 (vughy), 0.4 and 1x 0.7 (channel) |
| inclusions |
3.5%, length: <0.04-0.7 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, clear, grey, <0.04-0.7 |
|
mica |
frequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, dark, <0.04-0.06 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
riddled with, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, yellowish white, white, <0.04-0.7 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
riddled with, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, yellowhish white, white, <0.04-0.3 |
|
reddish inclusions |
very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, red, <0.04-0.3 |
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