fabric type |
VEL-A-2
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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, texture coarse, 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 |
3.5%; void form: vughy (0.04-3.8), channel (0.08-1.0); void length: 0.04-3.8 |
inclusions |
12.5%, length: <0.04-2.24 |
sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
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Inclusions
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quartz |
very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, angular, spherical - subspherical, subelongate - elongate, grey, white, clear, 0.06-1.8 |
mica |
very frequent, spherical, angular, elongate, white, <0.04-0.08 |
calciumcarbonate |
singular, rounded - subrounded, spherical - subspherical, elongate, white, greyish white, 0.08-0.64 |
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
infrequent, rounded, sperical - subspherical, subelongate, white, yellowish, greyish white, 0.2-1.08 |
reddish inclusions |
very frequent, rounded - subrounded, subangular, spherical, elongate, red, reddish brown, <0.04-1.2 |
black inclusions |
frequent, well rounded - subrounded, spherical - subspherical, subelongate - elongate, black, <0.04-0.52 |
grey inclusions |
singular, subspherical, elongate, grey, 0.36-1.2 |
more inclusions2 |
singular, well rounded - subrounded, subelongate, white and red, 0.64-2.24 |