| fabric type |
PAN-SOL-A-1
|
| fabric previously published as |
PAN - A - 1 |
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Palermo/Panormos-Solunto/Solus |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: quite certain, archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour red, texture fine and compact, numerous small and few large inclusions: white, grey, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
red 2.5 YR 5/6 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
smooth |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-0.9 (vughy), 0.6 (channel |
| inclusions |
7.5%, length: <0.04-0.4 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
| |
Inclusions
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|
quartz |
very frequent, well rounded - rounded, subangular - angular, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, clear, grey, white, yellowish, 0.04-0.4 |
|
mica |
frequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, <0.04-0.04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
frequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, white, yellowish white, <0.04-0.28 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
very frequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, white, yellowish white, <0.04-0.28 |
|
reddish inclusions |
frequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, 0.04-0.16 |
|
black inclusions |
infrequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, black, 0.04-0.2 |
|
foraminifera |
singular, subspherical, yellowish, 0.24-0.28 |
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