| fabric type |
MALTA-A-4
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Malta |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour (sandwich) reddish, grey, light grey, red, reddish grey, texture middle fine and compact, numerous fine to some large inclusions: white, yellowish, black, pseudomorphoses, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
light brownish grey 2.5 YR 6/2, pale yellow 2.5 YR 7/3, core pink 5 YR 7/4 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
7.5%; void form: vughy (0.04-0.6), channel (0.04-0.6); void length: 0.04-0.6 |
| inclusions |
30%, length: 0.04-1.2 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
mica |
frequent, elongate, spherical, angular, white, <0.04-0.04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
singular, well rounded, very spherical, white, yellowish, 0.04-0.4 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
riddled with, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, white, yellowish, <0.04->1.2 |
|
reddish inclusions |
frequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, red, reddish brown, 0.04-0.06 |
|
black inclusions |
infrequent, subrounded, subspherical, elongate, angular, black, <0.04-0.6 |
|
white inclusions |
singular, rounded, elongate, white, 0.16 |
|
foraminifera |
very frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical, very elongate, white, yellowish, 0.12-0.4 |
|
more inclusions2 |
frequent, subrounded - angular, subspherical, elongate - subelongate, yellowish white, 0.12-0.8 |
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