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, core reddish grey, texture fine and cmpact, numerous small to large inclusions: white, yellowish white, voids, mica |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
red 2.5 YR 5/8 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
smooth |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
3%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-0.2 (vughy), 0.6 (channel) |
inclusions |
7.5%, length: <0.04-0.6 |
sorting |
unsorted |
|
Inclusions
|
quartz |
very frequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, grey, clear, <0.04-0.24 |
mica |
frequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, dark, <0.04-0.06 |
calciumcarbonate |
very frequent, rounded - subrounded, angular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, white, yellowish white, <0.04-0.24 |
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
very frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, white, yellowish white, 0.04-0.6 |
reddish inclusions |
very frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, red, <0.04-0.16 |
black inclusions |
singular, well rounded, spherical, elongate, black, 0.08-0.12 |