| fabric type |
MALTA-A-2
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Malta |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour grey and brown sandwich, texture coarse, numerous fine to large inclusions: grey, red, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
grey 7.5 YR 5/0, pink 7.5 YR 7/3, core grey 7.5 YR 5/0 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
7.5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04-1.2 |
| inclusions |
15%, length: <0.04-2.0 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
mica |
frequent, angular, spherical, white, <0.04-0.04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
riddled with, rounded - subrounded, angular, spherical - subspherical, yellowish white, 0.04-0.68 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
very frequent, well rounded, very spherical - subspherical, white, yellowish orange, 0.08-0.28 |
|
reddish inclusions |
frequent, well rounded, angular, very spherical - subspherical, reddish brown, 0.04-0.8 |
|
black inclusions |
infrequent, subangular - angular, subspherical, black, 0.04-0.56 |
|
grey inclusions |
infrequent, very angular, subspherical, elongate, grey, 0.28-2.0 |
|
foraminifera |
infrequent, well rounded, subrounded, very spherical, spherical, very elongate, white, yellowish white, 0.16-0.48 |
|
more inclusions2 |
very frequent, well rounded - subangular, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate - very elongate, white, grey, 0.08-1.88 |
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