fabric type |
SOL-A-4
|
fabric previously published as |
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, edges dark grey, texture fine, numerous small and few large inclusions: white, red, voids |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
dark reddish grey 2.5 YR 4/1, core light red 10 R 6/8 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
smooth |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-0.08 (vughy), 0.72 (channel) |
inclusions |
7.5%, length: <0.04-0.76 |
sorting |
unsorted |
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Inclusions
|
quartz |
singular, subangular, very spherical, clear, 0.12 |
mica |
frequent, spherical, elongate, white, <0.04-0.08 |
calciumcarbonate |
very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, white, yellowish white, <0.04-0.34 |
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
very frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, subelongate, white, yellowish white, <0.04-0.76 |
reddish inclusions |
frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, 0.04-0.4 |
black inclusions |
singular, subrounded, sperical - subspherical, black, 0.04-0.14 |