fabric type |
VEL-A-2
|
fabric previously published as |
Impasto 9 |
ware |
Transport Amphorae |
supposed site of production |
Velia |
certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
colour light red, coarse texture, numerous fine to large inclusions: white, grey, red, mica, voids |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
light red 2.5 YR 6/8 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
1.5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0.12-1.4 |
inclusions |
15%, length: <0.04-1.2 |
sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
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Inclusions
|
quartz |
very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, angular, spherical - subspherical, elongate, grey, white, reddish, clear, 0.06-1.2 |
mica |
very frequent, spherical, angular, elongate, white, <0.04-0.12 |
calciumcarbonate |
singular, spherical - subsphercial, elongate, white, yellowish, 0.08-0.36 |
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
frequent, rounded - subrounded, spherical - subspherical, subelongate, white, yellowish, 0.12-1.2 |
reddish inclusions |
very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, subangular, spherical - subspherical, subelongate, elongate, red, reddish brown, <0.04-0.6 |
black inclusions |
very frequent, rounded - subrounded, spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, <0.04-0.8 |
grey inclusions |
singular, well rounded, spherical, light grey, 0.32-0.68 |