fabric description | object data | archaeometry |
fabric type | MALTA-HP-1 |
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ware |
Handmade Pottery Local Handmade |
supposed site of production | Malta |
certainty of arguments | archaeological: quite certain |
visual excamination of fresh break | colour light yellowish red, core grey, texture very coarse, numerous fine to large inclusions: yellowish, reddish, dark grey, voids |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) | exterior reddish yellow 7.5 YR 7/6, interior brown 7.5 YR 5/3, core grey 7.5 YR 5/0 |
texture of freshly broken surface | granular |
hardness | soft |
porosity | 15%; void form: vughy (0.04-2.8), channel (0.06-4.0); void length: 0.04-4.0 |
inclusions | 25%, length: <0.04-3.8 |
sorting | unsorted |
Inclusions |
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quartz | infrequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, grey, white, 0.06-0.32 |
mica | infrequent, spherical, angular, elongate, white, <0.04-0.08 |
calciumcarbonate | riddled with, well rounded, subangular, very spherical, elongate, yellowish, white, 0.04-0.4 |
carbonate pseudomorphoses | singular, rounded, subspherical, white, 0.5 |
reddish inclusions | frequent, well rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, <0.04-0.4 |
black inclusions | frequent, well rounded - subrounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, <0.04-2.8 |
foraminifera | infrequent, well rounded, rounded, very spherical, subspherical, very elongate, white, reddish, grey, 0.1-2.2 |
more inclusions2 | very frequent, subangular - very angular, subspherical - subelongate, elongate, greyish brown, yellowish brown, yellowish white, 0.08-3.8 |
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