| fabric description | object data | archaeometry |
| fabric type | PAN-C-1 |
|---|---|
| ware |
Coarse Wares Plain Wares |
| supposed site of production | Palermo / Panormos |
| certainty of arguments | archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break | colour light red, texture fine and compact, numerous small and few large inclusions: white, yellowish white, red, voids, mica |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) | light red to red 2.5 YR 6/8-5/8 |
| texture of freshly broken surface | smooth |
| hardness | hard |
| porosity | 3.5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.06 (channel), 0.04 (vughy)-0.4 (channel), 0.5 (vughy) |
| inclusions | 7.5%, length: <0.04-0.6 |
| sorting | unsorted |
Inclusions |
|
| quartz | very frequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - subelongate, grey, white, clear, 0.04-0.26 |
| mica | frequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, dark, <0.04-0.08 |
| calciumcarbonate | riddled with, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - very elongate, yellowish white, white, <0.04-0.4 |
| carbonate pseudomorphoses | very frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate - very elongate, yellowish white, white, 0.04-0.6 |
| reddish inclusions | frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, red, <0.04-0.4 |
| black inclusions | infrequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, <0.04-0.2 |
| foraminifera | singular, rounded, spherical, elongate, white, 0.28-0.32 |
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