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, texture fine and compact, few lage inclusion: white, voids, mica |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
red 2.5 YR 5/8 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
smooth |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-0.32 (vughy), 1.0 (channel) |
inclusions |
7.5%, length: <0.04-0.5 |
sorting |
unsorted |
|
Inclusions
|
quartz |
riddled with, well rounded - subrounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, grey, clear, reddish, <0.04-0.5 |
mica |
frequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, dark, <0.04-0.08 |
calciumcarbonate |
riddled with, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - subelongate, yellowish white, <0.04-0.2 |
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, white, yellowish white, 0.04-0.4 |
reddish inclusions |
very frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, red, <0.04-0.2 |
white inclusions |
frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - subelongate, white, 0.04-0.4 |