| 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 red, texture fine and compact, numerous small and few large inclusions: white, yellowish white, red |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) | red 10 R 5/8 |
| texture of freshly broken surface | smooth |
| hardness | hard |
| porosity | 5%; void form: vughy,channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-0.9, 1x 2.8 (vughy), 0.9 (channel) |
| inclusions | 7.5%, length: <0.04-0.5 |
| sorting | unsorted |
Inclusions |
|
| quartz | frequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, grey, yellowish, white, clear, 0.04-0.28 |
| mica | frequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, dark, <0.04-0.06 |
| calciumcarbonate | very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, yellowish white, white, <0.04-0.36 |
| carbonate pseudomorphoses | riddled with, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, yellowish white, white, 0.04-0.5 |
| reddish inclusions | infrequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, red |
| black inclusions | singular, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, black, <0.04-0.08 |
| foraminifera | singular, well rounded, very spherical, very elonngate, white, 0.12-0.32 |
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