fabric description | object data | archaeometry |
fabric type | PAN-C-3 |
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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 middle fine and compact, numerous small to large inclusions: white, red |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) | red 10 R 5/8 |
texture of freshly broken surface | granular |
hardness | hard |
porosity | 7.5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0.04-1.1 |
inclusions | 15%, length: <0.04-1.1 |
sorting | unsorted |
Inclusions |
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quartz | very frequent, well rounded - rounded, subangular - angular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, grey, white, clear, 0.04-0.6 |
mica | frequent, spherical, elonagte, white, <0.04-0.04 |
calciumcarbonate | very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, yellowish white, white, <0.04-0.28 |
carbonate pseudomorphoses | riddled with, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, yellowish white, white, 0.04-1.1 |
reddish inclusions | infrequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, red, <0.04-0.8 |
black inclusions | infrequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, 0.04-0.12 |
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