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 light red, texture middle fine and compact, numerous small to few large inclusions: white, red, grey, mica, voids |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
light red 2.5 YR 6/8 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
smooth |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
3.5%; void form: vughy, cannel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-2.0 (vughy), 0.2 (channel) |
inclusions |
12.5%, length: <0.04-1.0 |
sorting |
unsorted |
|
Inclusions
|
quartz |
very frequent, well rounded - rounded, subangular - angular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - subelongate, grey, reddish, clear, 0.04-0.32 |
mica |
infrequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, <0.04-0.06 |
calciumcarbonate |
frequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, white, yellowish white, <0.04-1.0 |
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
very frequent, rounded, very sperical - subspherical, white, yellowish white, 0.04-1.0 |
reddish inclusions |
frequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, <0.04-0.9 |
black inclusions |
infrequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, 0.04-0.36 |