| fabric type |
UTI-A-1
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Utica / Ityke |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: certain, archaeological: certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour pale green,core pale yellow, texture fine, numerous small to medium sized inclusions: red, dark grey, mica, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
pale yellow 5 Y 8/3 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
7.5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04-1.3, 1x 3.8 vughy), 0.8 (channel) |
| inclusions |
15%, length: <0.04-1.3 |
| sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
frequent, rounded - subrounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, grey, clear, 0.04-0.52 |
|
mica |
frequent, spherical, elongate, white, <0.04-0.04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
frequent, rounded, spherical - subspherical, subelongate - very elongate, white, <0.04-0.6 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
riddled with, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, white, <0.04-0.24 |
|
reddish inclusions |
very frequent, rounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - very elongate, reddish brown, red, <0.04-1.3 |
|
black inclusions |
infrequent, rounded, subspherical, elongate, black, 0.04-0.2 |
|
white inclusions |
singular, subrounded, very spherical, white, 1.2 |
|
more inclusions2 |
infrequent, rounded - subrounded, spherical, orange, 0.16-0.8 |
production
sampling
