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PAN-C-3

fabric descriptionobject dataarchaeometry
fabric type PAN-C-3
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

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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