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 |
7.5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0.04-3.2 |
inclusions |
15%, length: <0.04-0.8 |
sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
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Inclusions
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quartz |
very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, anguluar - very angular, spherical - subspherical, elongate, grey, white, clear, reddish, 0.04-0.8 |
mica |
frequent, spherical, angular, elongate, white, dark, <0.04-0.2 |
calciumcarbonate |
singular, subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, white, yellowish white, 0.04-0.2 |
reddish inclusions |
very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, red, reddish brown, <0.04-0.72 |
black inclusions |
frequent, well rounded - subrounded, subangular, spherical, elongate, black, 0.04-0.72 |